This is an analysis of the poem The Destruction Of Sennacherib that begins with:
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbbX ccdd aaee ddbX dXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010011101101 101001001011 101011111101 101111011101 101001011001 11011011101 101001011011 11101011011 101001101101 11001001111 101001011011 111111111011 11101001011 11011101001 101001011101 11101001101 11101001011 001101101101 101011001001 01010001010 101001011011 101011001001 101001110101 11011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; on, and, of, his, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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