This is an analysis of the poem The Friends Of Fallen Fortunes that begins with:

The battlefield behind us,
And night loomed on the track;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abCbDeDe defeghch DiDifjfj dkakaddd cdgdclcg agagJdcd JeeehiCi fkckcmXm aacaXici XcedeakakfjCjdgCl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101011 111101 0101010 010111 1111110 010101 11011110 110011 0101111 010100 0101010 100101 1111011 110011 1101010 110101 11011110 110011 1111110 1111111 1111010 1110111 11101010 1011100 1101010 1010101 1110010 0001111 0110010 111111 11010011 110111 11011110 111101 0111011 011101 1110110 111100 1111110 110111 1101110 110111 0111010 010111 1100110 110111 1111011 010101 1100110 111101 111010 110101 11001110 110101 0101010 110001 1111110 011111 0100110 110111 0111010 010111 0101010 110101 1001011 011101 1101010 0100111 1101110 110111 0101010 110101 0111110 111101 1100010 110101 1101011 111101 1101110 00100111 1111110 111111 0101010 110011 1101010 110111 0101010 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, of, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and, they, for are repeated.

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