This is an analysis of the poem The Art Of War. Book I. that begins with:
Illustrious Prince mark'd out by partial Fate
To bear the burthen, and the pomp of state,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddcceeddaa bbfgbbhhccii ffddddccjXcXbbaacc kkeefgeebbccbbkkccggkkii bbaa ddll aaaaggcc bbccddggbbbbmmkkbbbbbbgg bbmmkkmmddccgXhhbbnn ddmmbbbbnn eeddddfg ggooppddnnaadd gfaaddbbggbbbbbbfg ggkkaahhnnaa mmdd bbbbhhbbddnnbb ggccbbkkggccqqbbgXddd eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,12,18,24,4,4,8,24,20,10,8,14,18,12,4,14,21,8,6,18,16,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001111101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 01010010101 11110101001 11111100101 0101000111 110101100111 01010101001 11110100101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010111 11001000101 10001010001 1111010101 01110100011 110111010010 1110010001 1101110101 01010100101 1111010101 1110010101 1101010101 1101011101 110010101001 11010101001 11011111010 11110111010 10111101010 010101001010 11111100101 11111101001 11010001101 0101001001 1101000101 0101010101 1101110001 1111010101 11010110101 011110101 1111001001001 0111010101 1111010101 11011111101 1101011101 01111101001 111010111 0101011101 10010111110 1111001101 11011101001 11100101001 1101000101 1101010101 11111101001 0101010101 11010101001 1101010101 1101110101 11001010101 1101110101 11010111 11001010101 1101010001 11110111001 10001010101 1101000101 11010100011 1101010111 1101010101 110011101101 11010111001 0101111101 11010100101 01110100101 1101010101 1111000101 11010100001 1111100101 01010010001 1101010101 0101010111 1111011101 1101010101 11001010101 01001011101 1001010101 0101110101 1101010101 110100110101 0111010101 1101010001 0101110101 01010101001 1011011101 1101011101 1101010101 100100101001 0101110101 1110010101 11000010101 11011000111 1011110101 1001110111 0111001101 1110010101 0101110101 1101010101 11110010101 0101010101 1101110001 0101110101 1101010111 0101000101 1011011101 11001010110 11010011101 01010010101 1100010101 1111111101 1111110111 010010101010 1001110101 11010100101 10111010101 01010011101 1001010111 1101010111 1101010101 10111101001 1101110101 1010110101 1101110101 0101000101 11010100101 0101010101 10010010101 1110010101 1011110101 0101001101 0101111101 0111010101 0101010111 10010101011 01010101110 11001011101 1101100101 1111000101 1101010111 01010011001 1101111111 01001010101 1101110111 1101010101 11010100101 1011010111 1101010101 1001010111 1111011101 11010101001 0001110101 0100101001010 0101100101 1111010111 1011001101 0101010101 10011010101 01010010101 1111010101 1111010101 1010010101 1111010111 0101010001 1101110011 1010010101 1101011101 100101001010 1111110101 1111000101 01001011101 0111010101 10110010101 11010010101 1101001101 10110010101 1101010101 1011010111 0101010101 0100110101 1101010001 1101011101 11010101001 1101010110 1101010001 01001011101 0101010011 11010100101 11001010101 1101101001 0101110101 10001010101 1001110001 1001011101 11110101001 0101010101 11010000101 1110010101 1001110101 1111000101 0111010101 01001010101 1001010101 1111010001 1101010001 10011101001 1011110111 1111110101 1101001101 1101110101 10111101001 0101101111 1101000101 01010100101 01001100101 0101010111 01110101010 0101010101 1101110101 110101010101 11110011001 0111001001 011101101 01010011101 11011100101 1101011101 1100010101 0101010111 11010010101 110010010001 01010010111 100100010001 0111010101 1101001110 1011110111 0111011101 01001010101 1101110001 100100101010 0110010101 1101110101 1001010101 10110010101 0011010011 11010100101 1101110101 011100001001 1001010101 0110110101 1101010001 101101100111 01010000101 11010010101 1101110101 00010011101 1100010101 1011010101 11010010101 1001010101 11100101001 1101111010 010101000010 011101001010 110101001010 1101010101 1010010011011 11001011101 0101010101 11010100101 110101010 0101110101 11110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 285
- 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; to, nor, his, and, my, your, in, of, their, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, his, still, and, with are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Art Of War. Book I.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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