This is an analysis of the poem Above The Battle's Front that begins with:
St. Francis, Buddha, Tolstoi, and St. John —
Friends, if you four, as pilgrims, hand in hand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xcac cdad abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1011110101 0101011101 1101010101 0101010111 1101111101 1111110101 1111111101 0111010101 10010101111 1001011101 0101000101 0001001100110 1111011101 1111010111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, their, of are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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