This is an analysis of the poem They Shall Not Win that begins with:
Whatever the strength of our foes is now,
Whatever it may have been,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB cbcB dbdB ebeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1100101101 1100110 001101011 11111111 1100101101 00101001 110110101 11111111 1111111111 10101101 111111111 11111111 010100101 1100101 1101100101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whatever is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word win at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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