This is an analysis of the poem War Profits that begins with:
THE horns of the moon are tipped
With pearl. Her lover, wooed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXccdXdXdeedacacbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111 010101 1111100 01010 101 001 101 0100111 010111 01001110 011101 111 111 111 1001101 011111 11110101 011100 111 111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of War Profits;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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