This is an analysis of the poem With Their Backs Against The Wall that begins with:
Internal divisions with one wish to win,
As conflicts created with no end to them....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB cXabcde fXXdg feXaabdddd aXXgXffdccdgceXABaef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,5,10,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001001101 11001001100 010011110010 00110100 01111100 010011111 10011101011 10110100101011 1110101 0010101000101 0111000 010111001001 0100010100 1010100110100 1011011011 01000001011011 0101001011 10011011011 01010001 10100101010100 0101001101 1010010110001 0010101010010 11100011001010 11011001010 10001100101001001 0101001001 0101101011100 1 001010101111101 10100011011 1101000110111 0110010010110 10111100110 001000111011101 10100110 01110101 0110101 01001001101 11001001100 01 0010111 110111100110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, have, with are repeated.
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- summary of With Their Backs Against The Wall;
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