This is an analysis of the poem I Hear An Army Charging Upon The Land that begins with:
I hear an army charging upon the land,
And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX cccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100101 10100101010111 10001100101 01001010010100 1110011101 11011110111010 1101010101 10100101101110 11100101111 1110011110101 11111101001 1111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, my are repeated.
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