This is an analysis of the poem The Two Armies that begins with:
Two armies stand enrolled beneath
The banner with the starry wreath;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgghh ddddiijj bbddddXdXffggbbjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01000101 11010111 11010111 01010101 11011101 110011101 11010001 010001001 11111101 11011101 11010101 110101001 11010101 110011101 0011001001 11010101 01001101 01000101 11111101 01110101 11010101 11010101 010100101 10110101 10010101 01010101 01010101 01010101 110110001 10110101 00110101 110110101 11010111 110010101 01011101 11001111 01110101 11110101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Two Armies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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