This is an analysis of the poem The March To The Sea that begins with:
Not Kenesaw high-arching,
Nor Allatoona's glen--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbabcdadADefefefcdgdAd chXhXhedadAd chchchidXdAd ajajajbdcdAd cdcdcdXdgdAD cicicihdadAd ababXbbdBdBd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,12,12,12,12,12,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110 110001 1101110 1101001 0101010 110101 0101110 101101 11101110 1010001 01100110 110001 0101010 110101 1101010 1011101 101110100 1010111 01010110 011101 111011010 010101 01100110 010111 1001010 0101001 0101100 0111001 1101010 010101 0101010 110101 1101010 100001 01100110 010111 0101110 011111 0101110 011100 1011010 1110101 01001110 1110101 101110 0110001 01100110 010111 1101110 0111001 10101010 011101 11101010 1110101 0110010 110111 10101010 0010001 01100110 1100111 0100111 10101 11101011 110101 11101011 111101 0100100 10101 11111110 1010001 01100110 110001 0101010 1101001 10100010 110111 0101110 1010111 0100010 011100 0100010 1110001 01100110 110101 10111010 010101 1101010 1100111 1101010 1111011 10101010 010001 10101010 1010101 10101010 10001 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, marching, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word free at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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