This is an analysis of the poem So Many Blood-Lakes that begins with:
We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were
slipped in. We have levelled the powers...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bcXX babX dcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111100101110 101110010 0101001000100101 01011111101010 010101101011101000 1010010111 11011111101010011 110100011 11111011101010 1110111001 1101001001110111010 110110100 1111111010100010100 10101110 11111111001011011 11011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, of, have, and are repeated.
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- summary of So Many Blood-Lakes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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