This is an analysis of the poem Muley Malak that begins with:
THUNDER of guns, and cries—banners and spears and blood!
Troops have died where they stood holding the vantage points—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc dXa efe XgcfgaXagaXdh ieX afbhee bjfjkeXdii gead acd efXejfa XdjigajfgdagXjce kjdajXbhge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,13,3,6,10,4,3,7,16,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111101111 111111100101 11111101110101 101011111001 0101011010101 010101 1111001101001 11101010101101 10011111011101111 0111101011100 010010100101 100100111001 11010110111001 100101 10100101101001 10110011011111111011 1101001111011 11101100111101 0110101101101 1110010011100111 10101100111110001 010010111011111 11110100111101010 111110010101001 111011010111111001 101001001101001110 01001101111001010 10010101001010 100101101001010 10010101011011010 10010010101001 110101000100101 011101101101 101100101101010 11001101111101 11101010110001001 11110111101111 1111101101001 101111100111 100111001110 1011011101011010 1001001100111 001101001001 11111001 10011011101010 100101101101 011001101 100010101010010 1001111011110 100111101010 1001100111001110 010011111101010 1101011010111111 1010110101010110010 100111 100010110100110 110101011111111 010010011010010010 01010111111010010 1100111001001 11110111101001 10010111001011 00101001110010010 1111001011010011 111111011101101 1101001011001110 1110010110010001 1011101001010110 11101101011111 10111101001 1101101001 101101100101 1001001101101 0011110111110101 1100111110111 00111 1001010101101 11111111101111 10111110111010 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, hand, of, his, like, they, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their, they are repeated.
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