This is an analysis of the poem There Is Blood On The Earth that begins with:

THERE is blood on the face of the earth-
It reeks through the years, and is red: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fgfX dddd Xcbc hihi ciciXgbgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101001 01100101 1111011 10101001 1100111 0100101 0110111 1010101 0100101 0101101 11001001 1010101 1101001 11101 11010111 01001111 1111010 1011001 011111010 1100101 01001101 0010100 0110101 010001 111111 1010101 1110101 1100111 01001001 1100101 10100101 1010101 110111 1110101 1100101 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the are repeated.

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  • summary of There Is Blood On The Earth;
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  • history of its creation;
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