This is an analysis of the poem A Marching Song that begins with:
We mix from many lands,
We march for very far;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdd ebeff cgcgg hihii jijii kdkdd acacc kXkll iiiXi kgkgg XaXaa imimm agagg fcfcc kbkbb Xicii fafaa cacaa XiXii cncnn Xifii XgXgg kiXii fofoo fmfmm cgcgg mamaa kikii gagaa cmcmm pgpgg aaXaa gbgbb qgqgg babaa ababb acacc agagg apapp aaXaa kdkdd qiq
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 111101 011111 111101 011101011111 011111 001111 110111 011101 0101111000101 1111101 011101 111101 1111110 1111110111010 00101010 010101 0111010 110111 101101010101 11011100 110111 11110010 011101 101101010101 1110101 101011 110111 011011 111011111011 11011001 111100 1101111 011101 110111111101 110111 1100101 111101 110101 110101011101 101111 1111100 0101101 110101 101101011100 111101 110111 111111 110110 111011111111 101101 111111 110101 1111101 111101011111 0111010 110101 1111110 111101 110101110101 1101010 1101011 1101010 111111 111101111110 110011 110101 1101101 111111 1111110100111 0111010 010101 1111010 110101 110101010110 1101110 111111 1111110 101011 011101111111 1001100 110101 11001010 011101 11010010011001 1111110 0110001 1101110 110101 111001011111 1100110 110101 1111110 110101 00101011010101 11000110 1100101 1101010 111111 111111010101 110010010 111101 1111010 110111 111111110011 1100110 111101 0111010 010101 11001011101001 1101100 010001 1101110 110011 111111111111 1100110 111101 1100110 111101 111101110101 11111010 111101 1111010 110011 11110111101011 11011110 101111 1111110 111111 001111011111 01001010 011111 1011010 011101 1101110010011 1111011 111101 1111111 1101111 110111011111 111111 111001 101011 101011 111111111111 011011 011011 1111011 111100 0111011101111 11010110 110110 1111110 111111 111111010111 110101 110101 110101 111101 111011110101 0010111 111111 00101000 111100 1111110101001 011111 110101 010101 111101 1011110000101 0111110 010101 01001110 110001 110111001101 110101 1101011 0101011 10101101 111011010101 1100101 111101 110111 110101 100111111011 0101110 110101 0101010 110001 011111010001 0101010 111101 1111110 111111 1101001111101 0100110 110101 01001010 111111 110111011111 0101110 011101 0111010 011101 011101010111 0111001 1101001 010101 010100 010111000101 0101110 0101101 11110010 101111 110111111111 111111 111111 01001110 0101101 111101111101 1101010 110111 0111110 110101 110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 45
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 225
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, their, we, ye, not, thou, these, of, thee, thine, o, how, till, long, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the, from, all, their, o, ye, these, lest, that, how, and, with are repeated.
The author used the same words we, these, the, with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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