This is an analysis of the poem Why Those Battles Between Them Persist Without End that begins with:
I am not one to analyze or bring to judgement,
The misdeeds done by those now dead....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBDE Xfaghbaa aggbb ABCBDE hX gXXf iic caccdg ca fX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,5,6,2,4,3,6,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111010 00111111 101011011 01110111101 10100011 0010100 110 1110101101000 01110101010101 1101100101 1110101010 011010111 011101 1001101111 010010101 101101101 11010100110 101100100101 111001001011 1111010111010 00111111 101011011 01110111101 10100011 0010100 11110 11101011 010 01000 1 01 1101010100011 001010101111 010010 101101001010 11100010 11101101000010 111001 110010101 11001100101 001101010 00111001100 10110 01101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, those are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words because, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tradition is repeated).
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- summary of Why Those Battles Between Them Persist Without End;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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