This is an analysis of the poem Peace And War that begins with:
A pleasant river, clear and blue,
Went singing to the sea....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc de fXf babdXecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 110001 01110101 010100 01010111 110001 11010001 110101 1111011101 1101010111 1001011111 1111010100 1101110011 0101010101 1101000101 1101100001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word god is repeated.
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