This is an analysis of the poem To The Troubler Of The World that begins with:
At last we know you, War-lord. You, that flung
The gauntlet down, fling down the mask you wore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdcXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 0101110111 1011110111 1111110111 111011001111 11000101101 1011011101 11111001110 1110111101 11111101010 10110111001 111111111110 11111101010 11010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 642
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; you, in, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase young connects the lines.
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