This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Trafalgar that begins with:
LIKE an angry sun, like a splendid star,
War gleams down the long years' track; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacX cdcdefef egeghhhh iciccccc jijicaca gkgkedkd ccccclcl icicghhh miminene ababhihi Xchchlili
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110110101 1110111 111010101 111101 110111101 1010111 0010101011 10101010 111101101 1100111 110101101 11110101 111110101 11101001 110110101 1110111 11011011111 010101 010010111 0100111 1101001000 1110111 010101011 0101011 1101100101 0010111 111110101 11110101 1010100101 1101101 110101101 1101101 01001011010 1110111 010010001010 0101101 0101111011 00100101 1100100101 10110111 0100101101 1110101 010101101 101001011 0100101101 1100101 1110110101 1101001 11101011011 1110101 1101101001 1101001 1010100111 1110111 111101101 00111101 111101001 1100101 10110100110 01111111 1011011101 101010111 111101101 110101 10100100111 0101111 1010101101 11101001 1111101101 111011011 1010101001 1110101 010101101 1101011 0110100101 0100101 01101001001 0110101 0111110101 0111001 1101100111 11010111 110100101 0101001 1010101101 00101101 100101111 011100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, way, her, laurel, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, his, such, they are repeated.
The author used the same word wherever at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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