This is an analysis of the poem The War-Elegies Of Tyrtæus, Imitated: Elegy Iii. that begins with:
But ye are Britons—are the sons of those,
Of that unconquer'd race, whose arms of yore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefghghbbbbiiiijejededebabaiiiifdfdeieiikik
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 01100011101 010010001001 0101010101 1101010101 01010001001 01010111001 1011001001 10111111101 00101010101 1001111101 0101000101 1101110001 0111110101 10101110101 0101010111 1111110101 1101010101 11110010101 1101110101 1111011101 0101000101 1101010011 11001011101 1111010101 0101010101 01001011001 11010000101 1111010101 1101010001 010101010001 1101111101 11001110101 011101011 11010100101 0101010101 0111010101 01001101001 1101011101 1101110101 1101011001 10100101001 11010000101 10010101011 01110100101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010011 1111110101 1100101001010 1001010101 11011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2319
- Average number of words per stanza: 400
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words remember, the, now are repeated.
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