This is an analysis of the poem The Charge Of The Mule Brigade that begins with:
Half a mile, half a mile,
Half a mile onward,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabAaXbA XaXXcccbA DDDAeeba fffaXXXXXfa DDDAaaaXdaXaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,8,11,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 10110 110101 10110 100101 1101110 110101 10110 1001100 110101 111111 111100 110101 110101 110111 100101 10110 100100 100100 1010 110110 101111 101101 000101 10110 111101 111101 10001001 110110 1011100 1111100 110010 100100 101100 110101 10110 100100 100100 1010 110110 101111 1100101 100111 10111 111100 110110 111101 1101111 10110 100111 100101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; half, mile, to, theirs, mules, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words half, theirs, mules, breaking, honor are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hundred at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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