This is an analysis of the poem War Song that begins with:
In anguish we uplift
A new unhallowed song: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcD aXae cfcfcgcgdXhgiaiajhXX cDchfkfkcaca jhjdjljleaea hmhmfjfjj aXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,20,12,12,9,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110 0110001 010001 010001 010101 110111 110101 110100 011111 010111 110101 110101 010101 110101 011101 010101 110101 110101 011111 0100101 0101001 010101 111101 010101 100101 010101 110101 010100 010001 010101 011000 11100100 110101 110100 110111 111111 010001 111101 111101 1111001 010101 110111 010101 110111 111101 1100101 011001 111100 110101 101111 010111 101111 110101 110101 011101 0100101 0100101 111111 110101 0100101 010101 010101 110101 011101 111101 010101 010110 110011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; from, of, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from, in are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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