This is an analysis of the poem Battery Moving Up To A New Position From Rest Camp:Dawn that begins with:
Not a sign of life we rouse
In any square close-shuttered house... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eedd bbaa ffee gghh iicc ggj j kXaa ddaa ll gg kkhh ddgg aaggXbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,1,4,4,2,2,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 01011101 11011101 01110101 01110101 10010111 11110111 1110101 1010111 11010111 1010101 01110111 1110111 01010111 01010101 10110101 110011111 10011001 0100111011 010100111 11000101 10110111 111101000 01111101 11001111 01010101 11011001 010100101 010010101 11010101 110101001 01110111 11011101 01000100 01010100 11111111 11110111 01110001 11110101 01010111 11010101 10010101 11001101 01011111 11011111 0110101 1100111 11011101 10111111 00010001 01011111 11011101 1101101 10110101 11111101 11011111 01010111 1010001 01100111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, bow, down, our, and, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, who are repeated.
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