This is an analysis of the poem My Almighty Comes To Defend With A Rescue that begins with:

No more fighting battles.
No more fighting battles....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABAA BAA cXcad bDD bDD AEFAA AEFAA AABAA BAA AEFAA AEFAAXAEF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,3,3,5,5,5,3,5,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 111010 111010001011101 111010 111010 111010001011101 111010 111010 1 101 101010111 01110 1100010 111 11010 1111010 111 11010 1111010 10101 001 0010 101110 1101010 10101 001 0010 101110 1101010 111010 111010 111010001011101 111010 111010 111010001011101 111010 111010 10101 001 0010 101110 1101010 10101 001 0010 101110 1101010 10101 001 0010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, more, fighting, battles are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

    The author used the same words no, my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines battles is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words battles, saddle, saddles at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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