This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Pacifist that begins with:
What do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll of our Dead?
Think ye our glory and gain will pay for the torrent of blood we have...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd aaa eee fff ggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110111111101011 111101101101001111 1010110000100100100 01010011100101101 00111000101010111111 101111010111100101 0101011011011101 11011110111010101 10101101011111001 000110111101001011 10101001011011101 11100001011011111 100110111001001 110101101110101 100101101101001 1011100100100101 01001111111101101 1100101111101111 1011010110111001 1100101110111011 1111011111111101 111010110110101110 11111111011100101 00100101001100100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, of, we, and, that, by, be, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, when are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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