This is an analysis of the poem Love And War that begins with:
Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns:
I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXacadefadXghiafaiafbXXaahigajXecceahagXhjX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011101101001 111100101110 101111101110 0101110110010 01001110001100 010111000010 111111111101 110101110100 0101010110101 010100100101 110100100101001 1101110111 1101010101111 11110101010 1110110010101 1101010101 01010000101001 0101010101 1001110100111 1111010111 010100010101 1110111101 110101010111 11110101110 1101010010111 1001011010010 011101110100 011010101010 1101010010101 1111110111 111101110100 1110010101 101011100110 1010110111 010000110101 0111010101 1111011101111 11111010101 1101110010001 11110100010 1111110011101 1101111101 1110101011011 1110010001 1111110010111 01101010101 010001011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1210
- Average number of words per stanza: 203
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, he'll are repeated.
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