This is an analysis of the poem These Rhapsodies that begins with:
Policies they wish to fight.
Since they begin to become quite frightened....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc ACCC aadXb XECF Xggd Xgdg XGDG ACCC XECF XGDG XGgXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 1101001110 10001 001000110 010011 1111001110 10100001 0100110 1101101 11111111 0110110101 11010111 111111001 11100 1111010 111101 1111110 11100 1101010 0101 110110010 11100 10111 100010 011101 11100 10101 01111101 011111 010011 1111001110 10100001 0100110 11100 1111010 111101 1111110 11100 10101 01111101 011111 11100 10101 011111 01010101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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