This is an analysis of the poem War's Cataract that begins with:
In this red havoc of the patient earth,
Though higher yet the tide of battle rise,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc efgfeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0011000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0001111101 1101010011 11000110101 1101010101 0101110011 1001010001 1101110101 0101010101 1101110101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
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