This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Omdurman that begins with:
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me
And King in praise of the gallant British Armie,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX bbcc aadd eeaa fgfg XabX fghh iicc eegX gggX hXgX jjgX bbgX Xahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101101 11010010101 10111000010 101100100 10010111010010 100101001010001010 01110100101010011 101011100001001 01010101010101 11101000101 11001110101001 1010100100010101 010011110100010100 1001110101 110101001001 01011000010110101 11001110001101000011 1100010011101001 1011010100110101 0100010010111101 110001010010111 1010011101010101 11110011111010 11001010001001 101001101101110 01100011111 111101011101 1001101010111001 011000100110 110101101000101 1101010010110101 011000010101 11010101001010001 1010001001111101 1010011101111 10100011000010101100 11001010101011 011110111 111010111001 1100001111010110 11011010101 1001010100110001101 11001010010010 10010001010100100 11001010010101111 11111100001 01110100010111 00100101010010100100 0101101001001010 111001010101011010 0110101011 110110010100 11010010110010 1101011111 1101001101001 100101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- 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, with, their, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, may are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word omdurman at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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