This is an analysis of the poem Fife And Drum that begins with:
Fife, fife and drum, and the feet along the highway,
Crying: 'Follow, O my masters, to the field of death and fame:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXX bcXd Aebe XcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101011 101011100010111 11111111010101 1011001010101010 111110111010 101111101010101 101010101100010 1110101000101010 111110101011 101111100010101 1011101010111010 101110101010101 111110111010 111110101010101 1010101001100110 1010111010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
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; and, worth, that's, to are repeated.
The author used the same word fife at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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