This is an analysis of the poem Liberty, Equality, Fraternity that begins with:
For centuries past this war-madness
Has laid hold of each combative race,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba acdc Xeee fgdg XhXh ijaj fkXk dede Xhah jhbX jjaX Xjej dgbg adbdXbigi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010110 111011111 1111110010 111111111 010010011 01111011 110010110 011001001 111010010 101111001 110110010 111011111 011010010 01011011 110010110 11011001 1101101100 101101101 1111010010 001001101 110010110 101111001 010110010 101101001 111111010 001111011 111010010 001001001 1010011010 101011001 1110110010 11111111 111011010 111101001 111110010 01010001 110111010 1111110011 111011010 11001011 111010111 11111011 110111110 111010010 1101101100 011001101 111011010 101101111 011110010 11001001 1110010010 001011001 011110011 0110101011 010110010 111011101 111101010 111001101 110110110 111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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