This is an analysis of the poem Nature's Law: A Poem that begins with:
LET other heroes boast their scars,
The marks of sturt and strife:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded cfcfdegX ahaXXiii iXiXXcgc hahaadXd jajagaja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 010111 11010101 010101 11011111 0111110 11011101 1101110 11010101 1011101 01011101 010101 0101001010 1100110 11011111 11010100 01001101 010111 11010101 01011 110111001 1001010 11011101 0101010 110100101 110111 11010101 0101001 010101011 0110010 11010101 1101010 1111101 1100001 01010101 110101 01011101 0101010 01110101 0101010 110011101 110101 11110111 010101 11110101 0101010 110010101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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