This is an analysis of the poem Route March that begins with:

All the hills and vales along
Earth is bursting into song, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddbXeeffgg hhhhiiddaaiI ffaaaajjcaaaiI
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,12,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 1010001 1010101 11100101 11101 1010101 11100110 10111110 1010111 1111100 10111 1011100 01011 011101 110101 11111001 1010101 1010111 1110111 1110111 1110101 111101 1110111 101111 1011101 1010101 100110 101011 110111 1010101 0011101 110101 1011101 1010101 10100110 10101110 1010111 11111 11011 0010101 11101110 11101110 1110111 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; that, earth, of, so, be are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word earth is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Route March;
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