This is an analysis of the poem Moloch that begins with:
Old Moloch walks the way tonight
On Flander's poppied field, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab ccXc adad ecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11110111 110111 110001001 100101 11010100 010101 10111101 110101 01011111 110101 11010101 010111 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word old at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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