This is an analysis of the poem And He Said, Fight On that begins with:
Time and its ally, Dark Disarmament,
Have compassed me about,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbX ccccbX dadabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010100 1100101 1111011101 110101 1111011111 110111 100 1101110111 110001 1101010111 110101 1111010101 110111 1111010101 010101 1101111100 111111 1101010111 100011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word have is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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