This is an analysis of the poem When Will It End? that begins with:

Written during the Civil War in the United States.
O when will it end, this appalling strife,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccdd cceeXf bbggff gXdddd hhbbdd eeiijj iihhiiXddddaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10100101000101 1100100101 001010101 0100101001 0101011001 010101111 010110101 010100111 110111101 101110101 110011111 1100111001 101110101 010100101 1101101101 011101101 0110110111 101010101 0101101011 0100111011 0100011100 0110101101 1100100101 1001011011 1100100101 11100111101 100100100 1010100101 1110100111 1101100111 1010111101 1111111101 1110111101 010111111 0010101111 0101101101 11100101101 111001011001 11111101011 1101101111 111101111 10101011101 11100101101 1100101111 110010111 101100101 1010010111 111111111 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, and, of, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, and, the, you are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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