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

The tide of fate rolls on!--heart-pierced and pale,
The gallant soldier lies, nor aught avail,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeddffddggaaffXaeeddaaddeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111111 0101011101 0101010001 0100111101 10010010101 1011001001 1100010111 01000100001 1111010001 0111110011 1100111101 1101010111 11001010111 1111001010101 1101010001 1011010111 1111011101 11111000101 1101010101 110011010001 1100110101 1101010001 11001000101 0101010101 1111101110 0111010100 1001011101 1111010001 1011010101 0101011001 0011110101 1101010101 1111010101 1111100101 1100110001 1011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1602
  • Average number of words per stanza: 280
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, and are repeated.

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

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