This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of El-Teb that begins with:
Ye sons of Great Britain, I think no shame
To write in praise of brave General Graham!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcc ccdd eedd ffgg hhhh hhee iigg ggbb jjkk hhhh aaee daee eejX iihh ccii cccc llgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101111 0101011001 110010100100011010 01101001110101010 0110011101 01100111101 11001101 101110110100101 1111101011 1100100111001 10100101001 1011001001 011001111001 11010110110101 11100111001 1110111101001 11011001101 111011100111101 11001100101 1101100110 011010110111 110100101110101 11111010101 110011101111 01000101010010101 10110110101 101001010001 11101010111 111011010101001 110101110101 11010011101 111101101 110110011001010 10101010110110 01101011011101 11111111110011 0101101111101001 1101011010101 10001001011 110010010111001 111101000111 1100101010110101 10101110010101 11010010010101 1101101011101 1010101000011 1110111111 010100101111111 110010101 1101101111010 11011111101 11111111011 11101111011 10101101001011 11011101111 10101001000110 1010100111 1101010101 11110011110101 1010100100110010101 110100101001 0111010100111 010111111011 11010011101 110110101 11010011011001 10110010101 110110101 111110001001 1101011100100101 110010010001 00101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then, but are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 cheer is repeated).
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