This is an analysis of the poem To The Belgians that begins with:
Yet when the challenge rang,
' The War-Lord comes ; give room ! ' ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc d b d b ebebXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,1,1,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 10111111 100111 010101 111100 111101 010101 110101 110111 010101 100001 110111 101101 111101 110101 101101 011011 101101 1101111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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