This is an analysis of the poem Our Dead In South Africa that begins with:
Day of battle and day of blood
Found you steady and strong, I ween;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb cbdb XaXa bece deXEXE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101 11101111 100100101 100111101 11111001 10101111 101101011 10111101 011110111 10101111 10111111 100100101 11110111 11101111 111001001 1001000101 11111011 101100101 111111100 011110101 100101001 011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
The author used the same word brave at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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