This is an analysis of the poem The War Song Of Dinas Vawr that begins with:
The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabcbc dedefgfg afafhihi XbbbhXhb jgjgXfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 10101110 1111010 0101010 1111010 1101110 1101010 1101110 1101010 1101010 1101010 0101010 11001011 11011000 1101011 11100110 11111110 0111011 0101110 10101111 1100110 1111111 1101110 1101011 1101100 1101010 1101010 1101010 0101010 1100110 0101010 0101010 1101010 1111010 1101010 10101110 1001010 0111011 01110111 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less 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; we, them, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the, his are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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