This is an analysis of the poem A War Chant that begins with:
O England! Thy foe hath hated thee long,
And his hate is a deadly thing;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa bcbbc cdccd eceec feffe gfggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111011 10100101 01100110111 1111000001 1101001 00101100111 11011001 01001011001 10010110101 1010100 111101001 00100111 0111110101 1111100111 1010001 1101001001 10101101 11101101011 1101101001 1011101 1100101101 01101001 1101101101 0101001011 0110101 1101101111 110110101 10101101111 1010110101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; hatred, his, thou are repeated.
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