This is an analysis of the poem The Moral Warfare that begins with:

WHEN Freedom, on her natal day,
Within her war-rocked cradle lay,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffgghhccddff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011 01011101 11010101 01010101 11011101 11011101 11110101 01010101 11000101 01011101 110011101 11111111 11001111 11011101 11010101 11001101 01011001 11001101 11000111 11110101 11011101 010001010 110101110 011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 849
  • Average number of words per stanza: 157
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; her, and, their are repeated.

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  • summary of The Moral Warfare;
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