This is an analysis of the poem A.D. Nineteen Hundred that begins with:
War and Disaster, Famine and Pestilence,
Vaunt-couriers of the Century that comes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXaaccacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010101100 11000010011 0101010101 0101110111 0100010101 1000010101 1101110001 100010100101 0101010101 110111010010 0101010001 1101000101 01110101010 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 586
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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