This is an analysis of the poem Alfred. Book V. that begins with:
ARGUMENT. Episode of Ceolph and Emmeline—March of the Army.—Battle of Eddington.
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,6,4,6,6,18,18,22,4,16,38,6,20,22,14,4,8,14,8,14,3,9,6,6,20,8,16,10,28,40,20,42,18,4,36,4,18,34,22,24,12,7,17,36,8,10,12,10,8,16,6,35,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
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- Amount of stanzas: 54
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 804
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, my, their, her, his, with, by, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, not, as, with, in, leofric, such, ye, dear are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Alfred. Book V.;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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