This is an analysis of the poem To A Happy Warrior that begins with:

Glory to God who made a man like this!
To God be praise who in the empty heaven... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcadadeffedgXffdghiiaadXffiijaijfikdkaXk bffbllffmldmdkddkadanndad fffflfmmffoolpp bdXbgdgghdXodgaddhqqmoppabbkkdarXdrfggf affiEdiebXXbEdddldlananhhdXikkfiXmkfddkfrfhhrppkk saittosoiadsdadqahhadba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,25,15,39,49,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110110 01011001010 1111 0011010 1101 00011000100 100100 001101 11001 0101 110011 001101 01001001101 100110 0101 1111 0101 0111 010111 10110001001 1101010100 111111 11 001101 11 101111 010100 010111 01001 10001010111 11111011001 010111 011101001 01 110111 110111 110111 0111 1010 1101 1111 110100 111111010101 1101001 010101 1101 1011001101 110111 11001 1011111101 000111 0111101100 01101001 101101 011100 1011010101 1100 1001000111 0101 010100101100 1101010001 1011 0101011101 0101011111 1111 0111 1101111101 1111010101 1101011011 0101001101 010101 1101 11011011 0110011011 0111110 11110 1010 00110 1111 110101 0111 1101110011 0101 11010011001 1100 101100 1101001111 010111 10101 001101 1001001 01000101110 00110 01010 1001010001 1111010110 11011100101 1101000101 0011 110001 00010 01 1011 0111001100 1100 01010010011 00101 0101010001 0101 011001 1111000101 110101101 1001 0101001 01011011111 010101010 1111 01001000111 11011111001 1101 1011001101 1100110100 101101 1001110111 1100 01110101001 0101 010111 1001 0101001111 11001 100 0101010 1001010001 0101 0101001 111101 110010011010 1011110111 11110 01101 10011010001 111101 1011 1101000101 100111001110 10110 1001011100 1011000 1001010101 001101 1101 1101000111 1001 01000 1001110 1001 011011 1111001101 0011 0011 0001001 01 11010011 00010 1011010 0111010101 010111 1001000101 011011 11 1111000111 110100 11001 0111 110011 101101 0101100101 0111 1111 1101 11 0101011001 1001000111 1111100101 1100100 1101011111 111100 100101010 01010 11100 1101010001 1001 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 935
  • Average number of words per stanza: 172
  • Amount of lines: 194
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, whose, its, of, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, its, our are repeated.

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