This is an analysis of the poem Alaric In Italy that begins with:
Heard ye the Gothic trumpet's blast?
The march of hosts as Alaric passed?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAXbccddXdeXffaaccgg hhddiijjee AAkkiieleeddmmnnjjccff Xhoojjppdd hhXdkkjjccddffccddjjdXaajjaaddcceloo oojjggkkhhodddhhoopp ccppddjjeeeXccccddddeebbeeccccooccccaabbffhhiiXmmcckkaaddaann
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,22,10,36,20,61,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010111001 011111001 01100101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01010101 110101010 100110101 11110101 0111100 111111010 110101110 11011101 11010111 110010101 11111101 11110101 11010101 11111101 01010001 110001011 111010101 11010101 11110101 01100001 10110001 11110100 110010111 11010101 010111001 11011111 110010101 11010110 11110101 01010101 001010100 11010101 01010011 01011101 10010100 10110111 01010101 100101010 011101110 01011101 100100101 110100101 101110101 1100101010 1101011010 110001110 11011101 01101101 111100101 10110101 01010101 10010101 10110001 01011101 11111101 11111001 11110101 011101000 11011101 01011001 11010111 01110111 11011101 10111111 01100101 101011101 010010001 1001010010 011001010 10010101 11010101 11011001 101100101 11010101 01010111 110100101 010100100 11000101 01000101 111011010 0101010010 10000111 01010001 01010001 01010101 11010111 10011101 110100111 01000100 11011101 01000101 01101101 10011101 11011101 11010101 1001100101 10010101 01110001 11010101 11010101 101101001 110101001 11010101 111101001 010111001 111100111 010100101 010010111 11010101 10011111 0010001001 01110101 110010001 11010111 11111111 011101001 11010101 01110101 11110101 10010101 1101010 11011101 01011110 11011101 01010111 11010101 11010100 11010101 010100001 010101001 010100101 11010101 111100101 110001101 110010001 11110001 110010111 111111001 11010101 11011101 0100010101 11010011 11010101 11000101 01010101 010101001 11010101 01110111 01010001 010100101 01110101 110111110 110101010 101101001 010000101 011101001 010111001 10110101 110010001 110101001 01011001 11010111 010000101 11111111 01011101 10011101 110000101 111101001 010101001 1110001010 0100001110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 800
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 178
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, a, he, the are repeated.
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