This is an analysis of the poem The Battling Days that begins with:
So, sit you down in a straight-backed chair, with your pipe and your wife content,
And cross your knees with your wisest air, and preach of the... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbb bbcc bbbb bbddXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110011101111110 1111011011100111 1111001111100111 01011111010111101 1011110100110101111 01011110010111101 01110011100111111 11011111011111001 101111110111100101 11101011110111101 1101111011011111 01111011111110101 001011110111100101 01011110101100101 11001101010110111 1111011111010111 11110011110111111 010111100101100101 11101101111011111 11001101111110101 0111111011000101 011111100111100111 101111010011010111 0101111010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 75 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, of, in, days, they, we, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines then is repeated).
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