This is an analysis of the poem Celestial Arms And Chariot that begins with:

Not in dastard terror havan sought his safety in his flight,
But to seek fresh steeds of battle ere he faced his foeman's might,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd bb XX ee ff dd bX bX gg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010101010001 101110101110101 1000101000111001 1000100101011101 101010100011101 101000101010001 101010101010101 10101110010101001 1100111011011001 111010101010101 111011101010111 101111101010111 1100101001111101 101110101010101 1011100101010101 101011101010111 101111001010101 1011101010101001 1010111010101110 10101010001010010 1101100101110101 101010100011101 10101010010101001 111000101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, in, to, and, this are repeated.

    The author used the same word gods at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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