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

Shout! for the Lord hath triumphed gloriously!
Upon the shores of that renowned land,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abbcaddeeffbb ffbbdbdbggggcdcdhhddXfddca bffbgbgbbbbiibbbbbjjdd ckckXgkddhcchddgg cddcllkkiibbmmbbmX cbcbcnXcffbbkgkgffoo dgdgppXfhhbbbbggcc bbbXbbkbkbnffcchhbbgg bbddggcffcllgacghhoohh ffffccggXonbbnoobbcA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,26,22,17,18,20,18,21,22,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101000 010101011 1101011011 1101 1101010100 011101 110100101 110001 1101101110111 011101 1101010101 0111010101 0101011000111 1010101 11010111 101110101001 1101110101 1010010101 1111010101 111111 0011001101 010111 111101 1101001 0101111101 11010010111 0101011101 1111110101 1111001111 1101001 1101010101 11111101 11011101 10101010 11010101 010101011 11011101 10110100101 1100101010100 110101011 0111001 010101 110101001 0101010101 110101 1100011111 010101 1101 1011010101 1100110101 11010001101 110101 1111110101 110010101 010101010101 1111010101 01000010101 110101001001 1101110101 1101111101 101101100111 1111000101 1111010101 1101010101 1110101 1011010110 1101000101 1001010101 11010111 1111010101 1111010100 101111 111101 010001 10110111 0101100001 1101010101 1001011100101 1101111101 0101010001 11110101 0100100101 1001101 1100101 1111000101 100101110101 101101 01110101 01010101 01010101 1100110101 01001010101 1011111101 0101100111 01010101 1111010100101 1101010101 110111 0101010101 1100101 0101010111 1111011101 10011101011 101101 11010101 10010101001 100101 01001011101 1101 1001100101 011101 11001000011 1101010111 1101110001 101001100101 101101111111 110101 01010101 101101 01010101 010101 110010010101 11000101010 0011111 11010100101 110010010111 011101 100011101 0111010101 01010101 1101010001 1101010101 11001110001 11010011011 1010001 1110101 11011101 1100100 1101010101 1101110001 110111 0101011101 11010101 0001110100 0101 11010111 11111101 1101100101 101101 0101111101 11110101 0101001101 1111011101 1101010101 010111010101 11111101 11010101 11011001 11000101 01010101 11100010101 11000101 010010011 1010101 111101110101 11110101 01001111 01010101 11111100 110101 0101110101 110001 1010101 0101010001 0101010101 1100010101 010101110101 1011011101 1100011111 1101010101 0111010101 1101100101 11010101 1110010101 1011000101 10010110110 11010101101 11010101 1010101 01010101 111101 1001011101 010010101 1101000101 10011101 1011010111 11011101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 762
  • Average number of words per stanza: 131
  • Amount of lines: 197
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; they, and, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hark is repeated.

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