This is an analysis of the poem The Wallaby Brigade that begins with:

You often have been told of regiments brave and bold,
But we are the bravest in the land;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa XXaa baba caXa caXa caXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010100111 111010001 1101111110011 11100010001 11101010 010110111 10101111110001 1011010001 1111011111101 011101001 111001110001 10100010001 1110111111101 01111010101 0101011101001100 00110010001 0101111110111 10100011101 110011101101010 11101010001 110100110001 111011001 11110111010111 10000010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, tramp, our are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word brigade at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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