This is an analysis of the poem On The Return Of A Festival that begins with:
While War through kindred nations roams,
With fiery eye and blood-stain'd spear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcC cdcdcc eeeecC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010011111 11010101 10111101 11011101 110101001 11010101 01010101 01010101 11010101 11011101 110101001 110101001 11010111 01010101 11111101 11110101 110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, by are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sigh at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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