This is an analysis of the poem Her Majesty's Forces that begins with:
To-day, as when the musket-rattle
O'er Belgian lowlands spoke,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXd ecXcfgfg ehehefef efefcici ededjcjc ekXkckck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101010 1010111 110111010 011101 101111010 110101 100101010 110111 101101010 110101 111101000 111111 110011010 0100111 010101010 110111 1001001010 111101 101101010 010001 10101001010 011111 110101010 1100111 100111010 010101 110101010 110111 101101010 110101 110101010 111101 11001001010 010111 110101010 011101 101111110 010101 011101010 010100 1010101010 1011101 101111100 011101 110001010 100101 010001010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, e'en are repeated.
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