This is an analysis of the poem Valour Shields The Brave that begins with:
Hark! - hark! the sound of battle!
Warning thrice, the cannon's rattle!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabaaabccXb X dddb cccbeeXb X dXdbfffbeegb X Xhhbiiibeegb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,4,8,1,12,1,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 10101010 110111010 10101 01010101 11011101 1011111 1100001 11011111 1010101 10101010 110101 1 01101010 1101110 100111010 10101 110101 1010101 110111011 111101 1101111 1011111 10101010 110101 1 01111010 100101110 101101110 10101 0110111 1010111 1011111 110101 11101111 01011111 10101010 110101 1 1100111110 10111110 11101110 10101 010101001 11010101 1111111 1100101 11010101 1010101 10101010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; valour, britons, freedom are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wha is repeated.
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