This is an analysis of the poem A Toast that begins with:
Not your martyrs anointed of heaven -
The ages are red where they trod - ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb bdbd dXdX Xbeb XaXaXbebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010010 01011111 1010011010 11111001 010010110 01001011 1011111010 01011001 010011010 11001001 1010011010 10111011 1110010110 11101111 1111010110 011010100 010010100 101011101 1010111010 01001010 0010010100 11001101 1111010010 11001001 0011011010 101011011 110010110 10001001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, for are repeated.
The author used the same words a, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase to connects the lines.
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