This is an analysis of the poem On The March that begins with:
So the time seems come at last,
And the drums go rolling past, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddbccb eebccb ffbccb XXbccb ggbhhb iibeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1011101 101000111010111 1110001 1110111 001111101101001 1011001 1110111 101110101011101 1110111 1110111 111111101101001 1110111 1010101 001010101010101 1110101 1110101 101111101101001 0010011 1111111 111110101110001 1110101 1110111 111111111101001 1011101 1111100 111010101110101 1110111 1010001 1010011101101001 1011111 1010111 101011100110101 1010101 1010101 111011111101001 1010101 1010110 1010101001110101 1110111 1010101 001000101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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