This is an analysis of the poem The French Marshall that begins with:

McMahon up the street of Paris came,
In triumph from Magenta. Every one... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff ghghff ififhX bcbcii afafXfXcbcbff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011010101 01000101001 1111010101 1100011111 11011111001 0111010101 1101000101 0100111101 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 111100010111 1101010111 1101011101 1001010101 01011110001 1101011111 1101011101 0101000101 11111100111 0101000101 0111100101 01110101101 11010100100 1111110101 1101111101 1011010111 0101010100 0101101011 0101110001 10010010001 0100010101 11110010101 1111110111 11110101000 1111010101 1101110111 1111010111 1111010101 0101110101 1101011111 1110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.

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