This is an analysis of the poem The War-Elegies Of Tyrtæus, Imitated: Elegy Ii. that begins with:
How long in sloth's inglorious fetters bound
Slumber the brave?—The soft enchantment break.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedefgfgghghididagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100101 1001010101 1001010101 1110011101 1011100101 1101010111 11011100110 1011011111 1101010111 11110101001 10010010101 11001010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 111000101 1011110101 1111100101 1001010101 0111010101 0101010101 110011010001 11010100101 01001010101 0100111101 01010010101 1101010101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1249
- Average number of words per stanza: 217
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tho', to, his are repeated.
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