This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Moncontour that begins with:
Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the hour,
When the children of darkness and evil had power, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb ffcc eeee ggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111100111010 1010010110110 101000101001 101011111111 11110011101 111111011001 11101011001 0100011010001 111110111110 0010111010110 001101011001 111011111101 01111111001 0010010010001 001001001001 001010101001 11011011011 001011101011 001011001011 101101001100 11111001101 11001001101 11101011101 11011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; for, oh, weep, our, of, to, thy, we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, to are repeated.
The author used the same words oh, farewell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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