This is an analysis of the poem The Desire For Sacrifice that begins with:
The desire for sacrifice is now in our hearts
We shall now see what strength there is in the boughs of the enemy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXACdaebACfffAdgaaXgXAXeXaaAfcAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010110101011 1111111000100100 110111101 01011010100110 1100100101011101 11100100010110 00101100011 1111111000100100 10111111110 111111111011 1110101010100 010000101100000100100 00101100011 1111111000100100 110100110001111 101111101101101 01111100110001 00101100011 111101110101001 1111111101 10101010110011 100101100011 1110111110010101 10110111111 0101001101101 00101100011 101000010110 11001011100 00101011101010011 11101001111111 111110101010101 00101100011 10001011111001 110110110011011 00101100011 1111111000100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1934
- Average number of words per stanza: 382
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, we, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines side, us are repeated).
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