This is an analysis of the poem A War Song To Englishmen that begins with:
Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war,
Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcA acXdA eXbdA ebXeA bbffA gXXgA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 1101100101 11001100101 1101010101 0101 0111111101 1111110101 01111100100 0111010101 0101 1101011011 1111110011 1111110101 1101100111 0101 0100010111 10011001010 1001110101 11010101010 0101 1001110101 1001010011 0101110001 0111110101 0101 1011110101 010101011 1101111100 0101111101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; prepare, your, for, of, our, cause, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words prepare, soldiers are repeated.
The author used the same word prepare 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 prepare, cause are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word prepare at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase prepare connects the lines.
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