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

Dreary East winds howling o'er us;
Clay-lands knee-deep spread before us;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbdd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110101 11111011 10111111 1011101 11111010 11111010 10100111 1010101 1110101100111111 111111111011111 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).

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  • summary of A March;
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  • history of its creation;
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