This is an analysis of the poem The Fortitude Of The North that begins with:

_Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas_
They take no shame for dark defeat... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababXacac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1000100010010 11111101 110111001 111011101 11011101 01010101001 100111001 1101110101 01111101 1010010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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