This is an analysis of the poem The Sick God that begins with:
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In days when men had joy of war, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcb X ddcd X ddbd X eeXX a Xdcd a ffbf X gaeg X hhXX X iidi X ccXc aXbbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111101 0101011101 11011111 11010101 1 11010111 11111100101 11011111 11010111 1 11111111 1111110101 11010101 11010101 1 10110111 1101010101 11111110 11010110 1 11111111 1101110111 100110101 11010101 1 11010101 0111010101 111111110 110100101 1 11010100 0111110011 111110011 11010100 1 11111111 0101010001 111110010 110101100 1 111001001 1111110101 11111001 11111111 1 11011111 10011110101 111000111 11011101 1 11011101 0101000101 10010101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
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