This is an analysis of the poem Sons Of Belial that begins with:
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We are old,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a BCdXedfgheX XhXibgihididjdhgbX BCcXbXdXeeXbekcdhXkXjchhaX cecgXcbcjgfhXhjXXiXCef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,18,26,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111 111 0111 110 1111 1111 11110101 11110001 1110111 10111101 1 1001010 111 10001 11101 001 110100101 11010101 11010001 11010101 11010101 01010001 111111011 10010100 11110 111 11110101 0101001 1 111 111 1111 1010 011 1110100 1001 010100 111 0110101 1010100 1100101 1111 101 1111101 11011 1011 11100 00100 111100101 0011100 101001 1011 1111 00111 1 111 11110101 1110 10001 11110100 101001 1010011 1010101 0111100 11011101 11111100 11001011 101011 10111 0010 111110 1111100 01011111 1101 111 111 110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word we 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 song is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase old connects the lines.
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