This is an analysis of the poem After The Battle that begins with:
WE crown’d the hard-won heights at length,
Baptiz’d in flame and fire; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab bcbc dede cbcb cdcd XXdd fgfg fefe XaXa hghg bdbd ijij fXfd XfXf bkbk hdhd lele
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 1001110 11010101 110101 11111111 010101 01000101 111101 11110111 110101 11111111 111111 11111111 110101 11110101 111111 11011101 011111 11010011 010101 11011111 111110 11010111 111101 010011110 0100111 011110010 011001 111100101 010011 11010101 111101 11011110 111101 11000111 010111 11011011 111101 11010111 110101 01011111 110101 11001011 011101 11110101 010101 01110100 101101 010100101 110100 11010101 010101 11111001 010101 11011110 010101 11110111 011101 11011111 010101 11010101 010111 101111101 010111 11001101 111100 11010011 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; seen, d, we, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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