This is an analysis of the poem The Route March that begins with:
We've got our foreign service boots - we've 'ad 'em 'alf a day;
If it wasn't for the Adjudant I'd sling the brutes away;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbbX ccXX dddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101110101 0010101001101001 01111111110101 11000111010 110101001110101 10110111111111 11010101010111 111110101010 11110101111111 11110101111101 11110100110111 111110101010 11011100011111 101100100010101 111111110110101 111110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, got, wish, we're are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, i are repeated.
The author used the same word we've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mornin' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Route March;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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