This is an analysis of the poem The Civil Wars (Excerpts) that begins with:
XXXVI
The swift approach and unexpected speed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabababcc XdaXadaee X fgfgfghh X iaiaXajX X kakakabb X fafafall X gmXXgmaa X ejejXjnn X imimimmX X fmfmfmee X ieXeieaa X hbhbhbnn X jajajaaa X eeeeeedd m ffffffae h Xbjbjbjj X enenenaa X aiaXeiaa g afafXfmX X XjXjbjaa X inhninaa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0101110101 0111010111 0010111101 0101010101 0100011101 1011111101 1000010001 0100011111 1 11010101001 1101100101 0101010100 1101010001 1001010100 010100101001 1101010101 1101010101 1 1010111010101 1100111101 0101011111 1100011111 1111110111 1101010001 1111111100 1011100111 1 100000110100 1111010111 010101100 1111101111 010111100 01011011001 11010111101 1111001110000 1 01110110101 0101111101 1101010111 0101011101 1101001101 0101011101 1101010101 0111110001 1 1101111001 0101011101 11111111101 1001010101 1011110101 1101111101 11010010111 0111011001 1 1101010101 1111000100 1110011110 0100010110 1101010101 01000000101 11010011001 0101111101 1 11001010111 1011010101 1010111011101 0011111101 11010111000 0101011111 11101111101 10111111011 1 10111010100 1101010110 1101010100 110110101 11110010100 1100101101 1110110111 1101111110 1 1101110101 0101010101 01001110101 010100000101 1101010111 0110010100 0111010101 1111011101 1 1101011100 01010110001 1010010100 1101010001 0111010100 1100010100 0111110111 10110101001 1 1111110101 11110010001 1101010111 0101010011 1111010101 1101111001 1101111101 1101110101 1 11110101001 1001010001 11010010101 1100101101 10111000111 1101010101 1101110101 0101010110 1 1111110101 0001010101 1111010100 0100110101 1111010101 00101010001 1001010101 0111100101 1 11010010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101011111 0101010111 1110011111 111101110 1 1101010100 0100010011 0011111101 0101000101 111010111 01011111001 1111010101 0101010101 1 1101010101 0101010101 1111010001 1101110011 1101010011 1111110101 1111111011 1101010101 1 1101110101 0101010100 1101110011 0101010100 110111110 1101010100 1101111101 0111110101 1 1111000101 1000010101 1101110101 01011011101 1101111000 01010101101 0101111001 1101110110 1 1111011000 0101011101 1111111110 0110110001 1000010101 1101011111 1001111110 1101011111 1 1111110100 1011111111 0101100101 1101011101 1101110100 1111010101 0111011101 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 41
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 198
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, of, he, with, that, might, have, to, thou, what, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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