The Rose Of Battle by William Butler Yeats: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Rose Of Battle that begins with:

ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddaaeeffggddhhiiaajjXieekkii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101 0111011101 01010101001 11110000101 1101110101 0111011011 1011010101 1111111111 1011011111 1111111101 0101110101 1101111111 0101011101 0100011101 0110111101 1111100111 1001111101 11010100101 1101000111 1111000111 0101000100 01111101001 1111010101 0111111111 1011010101 1111101111 01010010111 0111110111 1011000100 1101100111 1111110111 1111011101 1111010001 1111100111 1111010101 0111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1575
  • Average number of words per stanza: 314
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, no, or, in are repeated.

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

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