This is an analysis of the poem Lexington that begins with:
1775.
No Berserk thirst of blood had they,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abba cddc deed bffb faaf ghhc iffi jeej hggh ecce ecXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10110111 11011111 010100101 11110111 11110101 11111101 11110101 11111101 11011101 01010101 01000110 11111101 11110111 01110101 01111001 01010101 11110101 11010101 11011111 11110101 01110101 11110111 010110011 11010111 111101010 110100111 10111101 010101110 11010011 010100001 100100101 010010101 01010111 01000101 11110101 01110001 01010101 01010100 10010100 11010100 11011101 11010101 01001101 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, their, they, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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