This is an analysis of the poem Befire The Battle that begins with:
By the hope within us springing,
Herald of to-morrow's strife; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdde ffegg egegffeeh cchii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10101110 1000101 11111010 1110111 1010110 11111111 1011001 1010001 101100101 100110101 01011101 11110100 11111101 111111001 1001101010 1010111 10111010 1110101 1011101 01111101 1010101 1010101 111110101 10011111 01011111 1101011001 11111101 1010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of is repeated.
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