This is an analysis of the poem How The Land Was Won that begins with:
The future was dark and the past was dead
As they gazed on the sea once more – ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefghgh ididhaha agaggggG ijijicbc iihigggG gigiigkG Xakahihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101110111 11110111 101011101001 101011101 0110010101 0100101 011100111 111111 010110111 1010111 010110111 00101101 0100100111 10110101 011100111 11101111 011010111 10110101 1010110111 010001111 11100101 1110101 111101111 1111101 0111110111 111101 010010101 00100101 111100101 1100101 111100101 1110111 0101110111 1110101 011100111 0111001 0111001001 0011111 11010101 0100111 1111110100 1100111 1100100101 110101 011100101 0110101 01001010001 1110111 111110111 1101111 110100101 0011101 011100101 1110101 011100101 1110111 1011100111 1010111 0100110111 1011111 0100100101 1110111 1111011111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word won at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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