This is an analysis of the poem Billy Khaki that begins with:

Marching somewhat out of order
when the band is cock-a-hoop, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacdc eeEeEfef gchcihXh ijkjkgjg ecciXig ijijiXk ddXdedkd akkkblil ikgkghihXeeEeEfef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,7,7,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 1010101 101010100010 001 1010101000 10101 10101010111 1011 10111110 1110101 11101010 1010111 10100010 1110101 10111110 0010101 1010101010 10101 10101110101 1001 1111101010 10111 101110100010 001 101010100010 101 10100010111 1101 10101010001 1101 101010101010 101 11010101010 101 001001101010001 1011101010 10101 1011101000 10001 1111101010 10111 101111111000 101 1010111010 11101 111111101110101 10101011001 0101 10101111011 10011 10101110111 1101 11101010111 0001 101010101110 101 10100110010 10101 11101010101 1101 101101101010 101 1111101010 10011 101001101010 111 11101011 1010101 001011101010 101 10111110 1110111 11101010 1010111 10100010 1110101 10111110 0010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

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

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