This is an analysis of the poem Fame that begins with:

HAVE I played fellowship with night, to see
The allied armies break our gates at dawn... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeXffffgXbdeheigieXegcdXgbhabXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 0111011111 11110001101 1111111011 1101000111 11001110101 11001110111 1111110001 00100010011 0101010101 1111110101 011100 1101 1011111101 01101101010 01011011101 0011110111 010110000101 1011110101 1011010101 0011 110101 0101010100 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 1011010101 1111111111 0101011011 1101110100 0111010001 110011101011 1011000101 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1427
  • Average number of words per stanza: 270
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, flame, and, gold, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words such, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase flame connects the lines.

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