This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Broad-Axe that begins with:
WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan!
Head from the mother's bowels drawn!... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabaaa ccdea XdXbfgeXcchfXccdg eiacbjcgbXackeleccXcacgeiXblhmndialXopjblcjXgbcmjbgokliggniXacbeacccjglbmapiXqogcoXioieXcgXebrXkgkobkgiXcXcee psgeiacXciXmg cogg aib eXpmgslXa XaobcgcXhchcbkpjaccbcaiaXcccc bcd cigXXbj rrgrrr lgcacX nidkXgibcbiqcnciXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,17,109,13,4,3,9,29,3,7,6,6,24,4,2,5,3,4,5,2,16,13,7,9,15,14,7,13,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 10010101 1011101110111101 111111110100101 1 100101101 0011011 1111010111001 111 110101101010 1000100100111001001 10 10111111011 10110111 1011001011 101101 10110111101001 101101011 10010110100101111 011 10110111010 100110010101100 10010001011001010 101101 1011101011111 11110111111 101100101101 10110111 10101001001 0110110101010 0101011001101110 10 001001001110110010 1 010110110001001 01011001111111 10100101 0100001100110101 11 001011100010101001 1001 00101001000110 01001110110110011 101 0100001011010101010 01110110110101 01001010011010 010011111011100 10 01001010010101011 01 001000111011010010 010001 011010001011010 1000001 010001010101101 10100101 100011011100110 1101010010010 0111011101010100 10010111 0101011011010010 101111011 0110110101101 01010101010100 0110101000110100 100 100111100010001011 001 0101011001010011 11 1010010110011011 11101 011100101011001 01110011001 11010110101010 010010101010 011110100101101 011011001011111 1001011100101101 1 01010100100111100 10011111010101 01001110100100100 101001 01110010111111001 11001001010 01001000101010110 10010010111 11000110101011 0100 01011010110110001 01001 01110001101000001 010101101011110 01010010111101001 00100101011111 0101 01010010110011001 11 001010011010101 10 010110101001001 011100110010 010101110100100 11101110101 0111010010111110 01010100 0101110100111 11 010101101010010101 01000111110101100 010100110111100 1001 011110101101000 10 010001000100011010 0101001001011101 0110100100110100 010100100101 0011010100001010 0100101001101001 01101010010010111 10 010010100101100 01000100100110101 110 0101110001 01000101011010001 0100 11110010 11010010110101000 1010 1110001100110110 0101 0101010001 010101001111101 0100101001101 1011010 1100001100001 1010111101001 10100110101001 10100011011001110 1000001101 110011100100 1111011 111011001 10101010011001101010 1110 1010101101101101010 1100 011110010101 1111001010010110 01101110101 111011110010 011001110101110 000011010010101000 11 01101101010101 10110100100011 1010100101101010 1000010 101001011001011 101001001 101001110111011 10010 1010011001010 1010100101010011 1010110010111100 0111010 11100010101001011 1 1100011100001 101110110001 10110101001101 10100111010101001000 01010 1111101110100100 110101101 11101001011100100001 0100 1010001101101110110 10011111011 1101100100110011 01 11010001010001 110101011010 1101010010001011 01 111001001011100110 1 101000100111 10100010000101 101000100101 101000110101 101101 1100011000100101 10100000100010100101 1101 11111011011001 0110001001100010000 101 111101010011000 00110111 011011010101111 01 1011010111011 1010101001 11101000100100010101 1 11110101 1111001011 01011100110101011 10010010 100111010 0110010100100101 111011110 111111110111 101011010111 10101110111110 1 10100101110110 10100100110100 1011010101011110 010100100 1101001111010101 010 1010101111010110 1010100 11111011101011 10001111101 1010010000110100 1111 101110110101000 101 10110010100011010 10100 101001101001010 100111 1111111111101 1010010101010010 11010101111101 110101010 1111010111110 1 11101001 1111010101010 1011011111101 1101110010 11001000101 10111001001100010 1 10101000110101 11110101111001 010110010111011 111101110111011 11011010001001 111111 11110101010101111 01011 110100110110 110101001101111010101 0 1101011010001001110 10101 010011111111 11111 011 010101101000 11011111 111001 1111111 101110111010 101100101001010101110 10100101001010101 11111010111110 11 1111010111 111110011111 100011100001001 110101011101101101 11 0101111010010011 01011 100100101011010111 100 1010111000000101 100 1001001010101011010 11100100 1011010010110110 100010011 1011010101101011010 11111 1101010101010010 1 0101 101001001010 1001101011 10010010110010 101 100101011101110 1 0101 1111101010110110 1001111 01110011010101 111 0101111010100 101011101 01100101101101001 1111111 0101 01101111 01011010101001 011101001010010 0111 0100101010010010 1001010 0100110111101 01001001001010010 10110 01001001001011110 0110011011110 0110010100110111 1001010110101001 1 0101 0100100100111011 010001 0100101101101110 101110 010011101111011 0100111001001000 101 010010010010101 10 010011010010110 1000100010111001 0101100100010111 10100001 0101 1011010101100 01100100011101 0110101111 0110111100111 0111001001110010 0110101100011 010101 11101101110110 01111101111011 1 110111101000100 101010100110100 1001010000101011110 0111111 11010011001011000 1110 10101001001111010 1010101010010101 11001010101110110 011011 10010010010100 110010101 101001010 100111100011 11001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 378
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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, of, welcome, lands, beauty, in, his, or, nor, place, where, to, city, stands, your, now, there, served, i, see, shapes, shape, posts, home, planks, door, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words welcome, lands, the, and, where, how, what, served, i, shapes, she are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines unjust, stands, now, out, woman, drinker, earth are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases lands, ghosts, shapes connect the lines.
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