This is an analysis of the poem The Art Of War. Book Iv. that begins with:
When Vice triumphant rul'd the iron age,
And Justice left her seat to savage rage,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddefddgg hhcciijjXkccddbb llmmllllbbjj ccddmm nXmmbbddookkhhkkdd jjkkkk ddmmccdd ddkkkkiiddggddjj bbccjjkkoo bbkkkkccggddmmjjhh jjddef bbcmppddhhjj mmggddfehhdd hhddcc jjddkk aajjdd iijjqq oohh ggkkjjbbkkkkdd kkhhXkddddkk jjddkkjjllddnnqqjjqqddnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,12,6,18,6,8,16,10,18,6,12,12,6,6,6,6,4,14,12,24,37,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 1101010101 10110111001 01010100101 110010101010 01011001010 1101110101 0101011101 11011100111 1101010011 1011110101 0101011001 1101000101 01010100101 01100100101 0100111101 1101110101 1101010101 10110101110 10010111010 01010011001 0101011101 0011010111 01011101001 11001010110 11010101001 01010001010 100101001110 1100100101001 1101010101 110010010101 1101010101 1111110101 0101111101 01001111101 1101011001 1111010101 1101011001 1100011001 11010100101 1100010101 1001110101 01111100101 11010101001 0100111001010 11011010010 1011110101 1101110101 1101110101 01010010101 01010100101 0101000101 1101110101 0101010101 1001010101 01001010101 11001010101 11011000101 11010001001 1101011101 1101011101 1001010101 1001010101 11010000101 01001011101 11001011101 0111010101 01001111101 1001010101 0101010111 1101010011 1101010101 1111110101 1111011101 10010111101 0101010111 11110011101 01001000101 10110011010 01100111010 1011110101 1001011101 10111101001 01010010101 1001010101 10110100101 0101101101 11010101010 0011010101 010010100101 1101010101 1011010101 1111010101 00101011101 0101011111 01011100101 1011010101 0101010101 11001110101 1001010000 11111101010 01110111010 1111010101 0101110101 01011100101 1011110101 01010101001 11010010111 11010010111 11110010111 1011010101 01010000101 00101010101 100100100101 1101110010010 1101100110110 1011010101 0101110101 10010010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 0101100001 1101010101 1001010101 110010000101 0101011101 11110010101 010101001101 0101010011 1101010101 1111010101 10010010101 0101010111 011110011010 0101111101 01011100101 1101010011 11001010101 1101010101 0111010101 01001010101 0101010101 1101111101 0111010111 10010001001 0101010101 1001010101 0101011101 0101010101 1111110101 1001110101 0111011101 11010010101 01010101001 1001110101 1101010001 0111011101 11011101010 0101011101 100101010010 11010001010 0101010101 11010001001 01110010101 1101010101 0101110101 1101010011 0101110101 0101111101 11011100101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 101100100101 11001010101 1101010101 11010100101 1101001101 0101010101 11010000101 1101010101 1011010101 1111010101 1001010101 1101010111 1101010101 010010111001 110101000101 1011000101 10110100101 01001010101 0100110101 1101010101 01001010101 1001010101 11001010111 11001010101 0101010101 1011110101 10011010111 01010011101 11011101100 11010100101 10001000111 1010010101 0101110101 1001010101 11011101001 0101010101 1011110101 1001010101 10110111001 1011010111 100110100101 0111011101 001010010011 1101011101 0101010111 0101010101 1001010101 11001010101 0101010101 11000101001 1111110101 0101110101 1000010101 1001010101 1101011101 1101010111 1101011101 0101010111 1101010101 110101010001 11011010001 1101110101 10111100101 0101110101 10110110101 0101010101 0101010101 11010111001 1101010101 11010100101 1111010101 1100111011 11000100101 01001011001 1101011101 1101000101 11110011010 01110011010 1101000101 1001110101 0101010101 010010101001 0011010101 1011000101 1001010101 1001000101 11010010101 01010110101 0101010101 11010100101 01001010101 1111010101 1100011101 0101000101 110100101001 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 270
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, to, your, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and 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 Iv.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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