This is an analysis of the poem British War Song that begins with:
WARS and rumours of wars"—the clouds lower over the sea,
And a man must now be a man, if ever a man can be;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXb XaXaXcXc dXdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111001001101001 101110010100110 101100100100101 101011001010101100 1 111111101111 10001 1 10110011110101 011011100011011 1 101011111010111 1 001000100010101 1011010011010011 1 1 01110011100101 1011101101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wars, and, man, we, of are repeated.
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