This is an analysis of the poem The True Heroes : Or, The Noble Army Of Martyrs that begins with:
You who love a tale of glory,
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc XXde fgfg eheh hihi dgdg eeee gjgj fXfc iaia iefe kXke eiei alal mnmn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1000111 10001010 1010111 10000110 1010101 1111111 1110111 100101100 0010110 1010101 1010101 10101010 0010111 10111010 11101101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1001101 10100101 10110011 10101011 1010111 1110101 1111101 1010111 1011111 101001010 1010111 10101010 10100101 1011001 11100101 1010101 1010101 11111010 0010101 10101110 1010001 10010101 10101010 1010111 00101010 10111101 1010111 11111110 1010101 100110010 1010110 11101010 1010101 10101010 0111101 11101010 1111101 11111110 1110101 11101010 1110101 1110101 1110101 1110011 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; some, and, their, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, each, though are repeated.
The author used the same words warriors, some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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