This is an analysis of the poem Who’ll Wear The Beaten Colours? that begins with:

Who’ll wear the beaten colours—and cheer the beaten men?
Who’ll wear the beaten colours, till our time comes again?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabB aaXb aabB ccXX bbaa ddccXccaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010110101 1101010111101 1101110110101 1101010110101 110111001110111 11011101010101 01111111111100 01011101110111 1101010011101 1101010111101 110111011110101 1101010110101 11010100010111 11010101110101 1100011110111 11010100110101 11001101111001 1101110110101 11010100011101 11010101110101 101110101111101 11100100010111 1101010110101 11011101010001 1101010110111 01011101111101 11010101110101 01010111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wear, beaten, who, colours, and, ll, wore, i, them, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, i, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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