This is an analysis of the poem A Battle that begins with:
SLOWLY the Moon her banderoles of light
Unfurls upon the sky; her fingers drip... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcadae cfgab befeadbahbg hahecgbaaabXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,11,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010100001 1001010101 110010100100 1111010101 0111010101 0101010101 0111000111 0101011101 0101110101 0101010101 0101000101 1111010111 11110010111 0100010001 0101011111 1011011101 110010110101 1011011101 001100101101 1111110101 1011010111 1100110001 1101010101 0101111101 1111110001 10111001101 11010010101 1111000101 010010001001 01001000101 0100010101 1100110001 1011000101 1011010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010101 1010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; her, of, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and 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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