This is an analysis of the poem On The Danger Of War that begins with:
Avert, High Wisdom, never vainly wooed,
This threat of War, that shows a land brain-sick.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 0101110111 1101011100 1101111101 1101010100 1001111101 1101100101 1001110011 1111001101 0100010101 0110111101 0110001101 0100010101 0111001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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