This is an analysis of the poem The Truce Of Piscataqua that begins with:
Raze these long blocks of brick and stone,
These huge mill-monsters overgrown;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccbbdXeeffeXeeggXddhheeeffccddff eeXd ggaa ggff iiee eebb ddaa eeee XdfX iXjX hhdd jjdd ggee ddee kkgg jjll jjXX hhmm ddee eeff eejj aahX lldX jjlX eeeX eedX eenn cchh lldd eeeX ddee ccee aaoo bbdd ccff ddee aaeX ddhh aaaa iiff iiaaaagg ppjj bbnn eel
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11110101 110100111 11110101 01010001 10011001 01110101 11010101 11010101 110100101 101001000 11011101 11010111 01110101 00111101 10011101 110101110 101100111 010010101 11010111 010101001 011100101 01010001 11010001 10110101 01001101 11011001 01110111 01011101 11010101 010101011 110101101 10110101 11010101 11010101 01110101 01010100 1110101 1111101 1001000 1110101 1010111 1110111 0010111 1010101 1011101 1000101 10010101 1000111 1010101 10100101 0110101 101101 1111111 1110111 1011111 1010011 1010111 1111101 1011101 1011101 1011111 1110101 1010101 1010011 10110 1011101 1011101 0010110 1011111 1010100 1011101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1011001 10100111 1110111 1111101 1011100 1110101 0010001 0010101 0010001 1010001 0011101 10111111 1111111 1011101 00110101 10100111 10010101 1111101 1010111 1011111 1011101 1001001 1011111 10101110 1011110 1011101 10101001 1010111 1111101 1110101 101011 1010111 1010101 1010101 1000101 1001101 1010101 10101001 1010101 1000101 1010101 1110111 1110111 1010111 10101010 1101111 1011101 1010110 001010 1001101 1010101 1011111 10011110 1110101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1111101 1010101 1001111 1110111 1010101 1010001 1010111 1010101 10101001 1010111 1010101 1111111 1011101 0010001 1010101 1011101 10100101 1010111 1011101 1010101 01111101 1010101 1000111 1011101 1100101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1110111 1010111 1010101 1110101 1011111 1011101 1010101 1010111 1110111 1010101 10111001 1111101 1111111 1011011 1110001 1111101 11101001 1110101 1110111 1010101 10100110 1010101 1010101 1110101 1011101 1001001 1011101 1010111 0010111 10100101 1010111 1110111 0010111 1110101 1000111 0010111 0011101 0010001 1011111 1110100 1111110 0011101 11101001 1011001 1010101 1011101 10101001 1110111 1110101 1011111 1101001 0010101 00100101 001001010 101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 45
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 217
- 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; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, thrice, in, from, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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