This is an analysis of the poem On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860-64 that begins with:

Because of the unaccountable spirit of the troops
oh we were marched as we were never marched before ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcbccXbaXdefdXXefaedXbca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001010010001 110111010101 110101101 110011011101 11000111111 110010101001101 110111011001 111010001000 01111010001 111101010010001 1011011101000 10101011010111010101 10101001101001010 101101011010000100 001010100001111 010111111100 111011000111 1101100101010100 11010111001100 10111001001110 1010101010111 1011101010101 11100111011 1011011111001 010010011011101 1110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1387
  • Average number of words per stanza: 246
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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; we, his, got, i, and are repeated.

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