This is an analysis of the poem Chant Before Battle that begins with:
EVER since man was man a Fiend has stood
Outside his House of Good,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcddeeaaffddccgghhaaddii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110111 110100 10010011111 0101001 0111110101 011101 0101110101 011101 0101010101 010111 1111011101 111111 01000101001 1100001 0101111111 0100001 1111010111 111111 1111010101 111101 1111010111 100101 0101011101 010111 1111010111 110111 1111000111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 993
- Average number of words per stanza: 193
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, a, and are repeated.
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