This is an analysis of the poem On General Lawrence that begins with:
Born to command to conquer, and to spare,
As mercy mild, yet terrible as war,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010101 1101110011 1101011101 01010101001 01010100101 1101000101 1111010101 010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 8
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whose is repeated.
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