This is an analysis of the poem Above The Battle that begins with:
Honor and pity for the smitten field,
The valorous ranks mown down like precious corn, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cdeced
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010101 01001111101 1111011101 1100010111 0101010111 1001111101 10001010101 1001101010010 1101010101 0101001101 0101111101 1111011101 1001101001001 100010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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