This is an analysis of the poem The Battle that begins with:
Dames should be doomed to dungeons
Who masticate raw onions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bcbcbb dedeff Xeeebb gagXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1100110 11010101 011101 11110101 110001 01010101 111101 11110011 1101010 11010111 1101010 11111101 111101 11011101 0101110 110101000 1101010 11111111 111100 11111111 01010 11011101 11110 11110101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Battle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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