This is an analysis of the poem Birds Of Prey March that begins with:
March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies.
Front! -- eyes front, an' watch the Colour-casin's drip.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdDC XeXX fdfd ghgh eiei Xjij bckkXllXdDC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010001110 11111010101 101000100010 10111010101 1111010100 111101010101 01111 1010101 11101110101 111111101010 11111011011 101011111111 11111011111 101011111010 11111011101 111110101110 11111010101 111110100110 10111111101 111111101010 11101111101 101011101011 10101010101 1110111010101 10111010001 1010101010110 10111011111 1011011111110 11001011101 11110101110100 111101010101111 010101 1110101 11101110101110 010101 1110101 11101110101110 101111 1010101 11101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; front, an', cheer, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words front, cheer are repeated.
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- summary of Birds Of Prey March;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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