This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Agincourt that begins with:
Fair stood the wind for France
When we our sails advance,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcbcb dddefffe ggghiiih cccgcccg ffffcccf iiijdddX gggcXXec cccekkke lXljfbbj hhheaaae mmmbddXb hhhddXdd gggeddde gggXfbXXXfffbcccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 111101 110111 10010 110001 1101010 010101 10110 1101001 100111 1001101 01010 100111 011101 101101 01010 100101 110001 010001 10110 110101 100101 101101 11010 110001 111101 1010101 0101 111110 101101 110001 1101 1011111 011110 101111 11011 101001 110111 101101 10011 1001101 111101 101111 11110 111101 100101 1100111 101100 010111 010101 001101 01010 100101 01011100 111110 10110 110111 101101 110101 01110 100111 010101 100101 10010 101101 110100 110101 01110 100111 101100 010100 10110 010111 100111 110101 10010 100101 110101 111101 11010 111111 111101 110111 11110 100101 100101 1011010 11010 011101 011100 101101 101000 1100111 010110 1100101 1010 101110 100101 110101 00110 100111 110101 1011001 11010 100101 100101 110101 11111 100101 101100 101100 10110 011101 110101 110101 010010 111101 011101 110101 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 me is repeated).
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