This is an analysis of War by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurled
Death, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaXgghhhXaaffhhggddbbfXiiaajjaahhaaddiibbddaaiibbaahhbbgghhkkggggiillhhaaiimm
  • Stanza lengths: 88,
  • Metre: 010101100111 1111010101 1111110101 1111011101 11011101001 1111001101 1011110101 1100110100 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1101010111 1101010111 1011100101 1111111101 1101111101 0111011111 1111010101 1111110111 1111111110 1101111101 1001010101 0100110111 01010111001 11110010101 1011110111 11110010101 0101010101 10110101011 1101010111 00010111001 1101010101 1101010011 01110110111 1111010111 1101000101 1101100101 1101111011 1101010101 1101010101 0101010111 0111010111 11010111001 1111110101 1001110101 1011010101 1111011001 1101010101 1111010101 1111011101 10011101001 1101010101 1011111111 11001111101 11111101001 1111010101 1101010101 1101100111 1111010101 0101110111 0101000111 10010011010001 1111111101 0111011101 1111111101 10010001101 0111111101 11001011101 0111110001 10110100101 1101010010001 1101010111 1101010111 1101010001 1101010101 11010101001 1101110101 1111100101 1011110101 1011001111 1101010101 1001001111 1011110101 1011010101 10010110101 11001010101 0101010101 1101110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 88

Repeated words/phrases

and, thy, work

Anaphora

yet, for, will