This is an analysis of the poem The Drums Of Ages that begins with:
Drums of all that’s right and wrong—of love and hate and scorn,
And the new-born baby hears them and it wails when it is born.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaBb ccddee ffggee hhaaee bbhhee ccggeeXAaBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,6,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011111011111 101110101011001 1011000111111 111010101110111 1010100110101 101000101011111 101010111011101 101010101010101 1010101010101001 111011101110101 1010101110111 101010101010101 101010101011101 101110101010111 101110101010001 101010101010101 1011101010101 001010101110111 111111101111101 101010101010001 101011101011101 101001101010111 1011101111101 101010101011111 101110101011101 011010101010001 101010101010011 101010101010101 1010111011101 1010101000010101 101010100010111 101000111010101 1010101010000101 1010010101010001 1011111011111 101110101111101 1011000111111 111110101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, them, all, that, of, t, drums, hear, you, don, heard are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word beating is repeated.
The author used the same word drums at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word drums at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase drums connects the lines.
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- summary of The Drums Of Ages;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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