This is an analysis of the poem The Passions That We Fought With that begins with:
The passions that we fought with and subdued
Never quite die. In some maimed serpent's coil...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1011011101 11100011100 11011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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