This is an analysis of the poem When The `army' Prays For Watty that begins with:

When the kindly hours of darkness, save for light of moon and star,
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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aaaa ccdd eeff ggee eehh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1010100101110111 101010101010101 101110101010101 101011101010001 111011101010101 001110101010101 111110101011101 101011100010001 101000110010101 001000101011101 101110110010101 111011101110101 111011101010011 101010101010111 111010100011101 101000101010011 101011100010001 101100101010111 111011101010101 101011101111101 011010101010101 001110101011101 111110101110101 101010101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; of, i, his, and, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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