This is an analysis of the poem Peace that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bccbcddeeaadffeffcc egegbbbhbbhiihbjjbcckkc X X kllklcddcXchgcgddchhdld lbbccbmmmccccbbffhXll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,19,23,1,1,23,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0100 110111 100101 1000010001 01010111 1111111001 11010010001 1101010101 1101010111 1101111101 1111111101 0101010101 1101111101 01010101 0111110001 1101000111 01011111 01011101001 1101010111 0111011111 1101010101 01010001 11010101 01001 0111110001 01010101 010100001 01110111 11011101 0101111111 010010111 111001 1101000101 101101 1101010101 1101010111 11010101001 1000011111 1101010111 1001000101 1100110101 01111101 01001111101 1 0100 1001110101 11110111 11010001001 110111 010110111 10010101 0101 100101 0110111101 10110110 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 011111 0101110101 01011101 00110110101 0101110101 0101001101 01110101 11010111 01011111 10111101 1111011101 110101 110101 1100011 111001 0101010101 1111011101 1111011101 1101110111 110101011001 1001110101 1001110101 0101010101 10110101001 010011 1111010101 010111 0111000101 110001110 0101010101 10110000100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, not are repeated.
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- summary of Peace;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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