This is an analysis of the poem God's Battleground that begins with:
God dwells in you; in pride and shame,
In all you do to blight or bless;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc deXeff babafX gbgbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 01110111 01110111 01010100 100100101 10111111 11010111 01110111 01111111 01110111 10110111 11110111 11110101 01011111 10110001 11011101 10010110 01000100 10010001 11110101 01010101 01010100 11111101 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, you, god, and, of, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, god, of, and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word god at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase god connects the lines.
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