This is an analysis of the poem The Cageing Of Ares that begins with:

[Iliad, v. V. 385--Dedicated to the Council at The Hague.]
How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughed... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdadaeafgfhihhaXjackchaXaffXfdgkaaffihhgXjiahgfaiffhgafXkcfhhcaahddkaeagddXcXijdgljkhXgkfcdfhhahbkdamfafgdhfaiahmffhakXkdXkaXdnajjkldmbgjdlXffXdmnhkhkdfkcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,157,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10011110000010101 1101110101 1100110101 11010111001 1001010111 11101011111 1000111111 111100101001 01010100101 01010010001 1010111101 0100101001 1100010101 101100100101 10100000101 110100100111 0101010101 111010011 11010101001 1011010101 11011100011 0101111101 10001010111 0101010101 01101011101 1000010011 1100010100 11100111111 01010100101 0101010101 1001011101 1101010011 1111010111 0101010011 11010010011 1101010101 01010100101 1101011111 0111010101 01100100101 0101000101 01010000101 0101011101 0101001101 111110101 11111001001 1101010001 0101010001 1111010101 010111001110 1000110101 1001010101 11010010111 1101011001 0101111101 010001110 1101010101 1101010101 10010101010 1000110111 01010111111 10110011101 1001010101 1101011111 01111101011 1101010011 01000100101 01010101010 010100111110 01010101101 1001100101 01100100101 1101011101 1101010111 0101010101 1010011101 1001000101 11010100101 1111010101 0100010101 1100010111 11111011001 1101110111 1001010011 0111011101 10101010011 01010001011 0101010101 0101000101 0111011111 01010100111 1101110101 0101000101 10001110101 0101011101 11010011101 110100011001 11000111001 1001010001 1101010111 01000100001 1101110001 0101100101 0111001100 1101111001 0101110001 1001010111 10001111001 11001100110 0101011000 11101101010 001011100101 1010100001 0101010101 1111010101 1001010101 110100100111 01000010101 1100110101 1001011001 1101111011 11011101110 01010100101 110100101001 100001010 0101010011 1001001101 1100100100 1100010101 1110100101 0101111011 0101110101 1111010101 1000011111 1101010101 0111110101 1111010101 110010100101 1101100101 110000101011 010101010111 11010101001 10110100100 1101111111 101100110101 100110100 1101111111 0101110101 01000110001 0111111101 0100101101 11001010101 01001111010 0100110111 10110010100 1100110101 0101010011 11001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3460
  • Average number of words per stanza: 586
  • Amount of lines: 158
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, his, by, those, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase descend connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Cageing Of Ares;
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