This is an analysis of the poem In The Neolithic Age that begins with:
In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage
For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe XfbX fdgX XbhX XfXX XcXc aigi acXX Xbhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010011011011 1111110101 11100110111101 11101111111 111111110101001 10110011111 10111111010111 00111011101 10100101011111 10101010111 111111111100101 00100010110 11101011110111 11111010101 111111110011111 111110111110 111010100100111 11110010001 101111010010101 110010100010 1010101111111011 0101011111 1110111010101010 101010101111 111001111100101 11101010111 101100001011000 11101010111 10101011110111 11111110111 11111011110111 0101010101 10101011010101 101010100101 10101011010100 10101010100 11101111110101 10111110101 11111010010101 11001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, of, my, still, we, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when, still are repeated.
The author used the same word still at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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