This is an analysis of the poem Fontenoy. 1745 that begins with:
OH, BAD the march, the weary march, beneath these alien skies,
But good the night, the friendly night, that soothes our tired eyes. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb bbccbb bbddbb ddddbb d eecc ddee ccddXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101010111001 10010101111101 1101010011111001 1001001010110101 1111010110011 01010101011101 1101010010101 11010101101101 1101010010001 11010101101001 01111101110101 1111010110111 0101011010001 0100011010101 11101011110001 1101111011101 00101110100111 011011111111 1101010110111 011111110111 0111010110111 110011101010111 1111010111101 11111101010101 11001010111 10101111111 10101010101 01111010011 10101010101 10111011111 101111100101 10111010111 10101010101 10111010001 111010010101 10101000111 101010000101 101010101001 101010110111 11101010001 10101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, we, to, in, and, clare, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, the, in are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words clare, light at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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