This is an analysis of the poem Sweet Danger that begins with:

The danger of war, with its havoc of life,
The danger of ocean, when storms are rife, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeccffgg cchhiijj kklleeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01001001001 0100101111 0100101111 0101100101 111111111 1010100101 011101111 010100101 01000100101 0100100101 011110111 01011001001 1111001010 01101001010 1110100111 0101011001 101101101 110100101 010101101 10100100101 1100101001 110101111 11001011001 1110100111 110101101 1111011011 011101111 0010100101 110101111 110100101 110101111 110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, danger, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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