This is an analysis of the poem Battle Song that begins with:
There's havoc on the staircase where the guests come streaming,
Shirt-fronts shining and tiaras gleaming,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabaaab cDedafgF CaXahgXX aaabaaab cDXdhfdF CbebXgdGcGcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011101110 1110101010 1110011110 10001001 1110101010 1110011110 110010101110 11001111 11001111110 11001111 11101111011 110101 11010010011 111101 11011110111 11001101 11001101110 11001101 10011010101 100111 10011010001 100111 10111111111 11001101 1001100010110 11110111110 1110011110 10101011 100010111110 10011101110 110010101110 11001111 11001111110 11001111 11111010001 110101 1001011111 10001011 11111110101 11001101 11001101110 11001111 1111111011 110111 10110010011 100101 11111110111 11001101 110 11001101 110 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, for, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'make, fight, fierce are repeated.
The author used the same word 'make at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases steaming, sagging connect the lines.
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