This is an analysis of the poem The League Of Nations that begins with:
Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore!
The Big Five met in the world's light as many had met before, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa Xbb ccc ddd EEE fff aaa ggg bbX ddd EEE hhh XiiXhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111101 011100111101101 1010010101110111 011110010110100 0111001010111001 101010010101111 11101110111111 110110101101101 1010111101111001 11011110100101 1101010111011 110111010111111 1011110111101 110010010110111 10010010111001 1111001001001111 111100101001001 11001001010101001 1111010100001 10111010100111 1001111101111 111101111101001 1010101101111101 1110010101100101 011101000100111 11001001011100111 110010101110110 110110101101101 0111001011010101 1111100100111001 1011110111101 110010010110111 10010010111001 10101011011011001 1011110101111101 10101001011001101 111100101101101000 11110010101101 0100100101011011 101111001001101 10011111011001 1011100100111011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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, more, no, for, each, in, than, he, their, let, to, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, each, let are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase bats connects the lines.
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