This is an analysis of the poem A Mad Fight Song For William S. Carpenter, 1966 that begins with:

Varus, varus, gib mir meine Legionen wieder
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb cdb XddbeX eXX ecadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,3,6,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011110010 11110110001100 11011 11010110111001 01010011111 1111111101 101010101110 1010011 1011101111 110110 01001010100001001010 1011000001001 0010100101 0110 1010011100101 0101101101001 0011 110111 1111 11100101 10111110 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; i is repeated.

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