This is an analysis of the poem In War that begins with:
Fret the nonchalant noon
With your spleen... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcd cbeff gfhig dajkf lalj mcclc dfaga ellbf nlccc lacln kcnb dcmjd d dmdm Xdjd liXi hihi cdcd nfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,4,5,5,5,5,5,4,5,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 011 1111 10100110 10101 1110110 101 1111 100111010 0011111 0111110 011 01010 11010101 1001110 1110010 101 1111 11101001 101101 001111101 101001 10101010 110011 111101 101 0011 110101 111111 111111 1111 11011 011010 101101 111111 110 101 01011011 110101 001101 1111 1111 010010100 1011101 001111 1011 1111 101111 110110 11110111 1101 10111011 111101 1101101 011 0011 110110 1101110 0110 1111001 1011 110101 1111 11100 1101 1101011 0100 110101 0111 0010110 1101 111111 1101 111101 1101 110101 1111 001101 1101 101101 1110 010100 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, we, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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