This is an analysis of the poem The Going Of The Battery [wive's Lament November 2nd 1899] that begins with:
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O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xaba X XcdX X ceXe X dfbf a ghbh a cigi X fjgj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 101101101101 1011011010 101100101100 1011001011 1 111100111000 11010111110 110100101100 11010110110 1 110101101101 10111100001 1111001001 1101101001 1 110100100100 1111001111 111100001100 1011011011 1 101101101101 1111011001 111110110110 1011001011 1 111100011101 1111011011 110111110111 1011001111 1 110101101101 1001111111 101101110101 1101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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; enough, to, us are repeated.
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