This is an analysis of the poem The Three Songs that begins with:
The poet sang of a battle-field
Where doughty deeds were done,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbaadX efeefbbdX ggbbddhh ggiibbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 110101 11111111 1010111 001010100 110011100 10111011 110111111 001001101001 111101100111 11101101010 011101101 11001001 00101100101 101001000111 0101001 010100101 0101011001 1010101111 11101101011 1111111101 01001111001 100100101 010110101 101110111 1111000101 1110100100 0100101001 0101111011 10110101101 1011101110 11001001010 10010101 1011101101 1011100101 0110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Three Songs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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