This is an analysis of the poem Marching To Germany that begins with:
Swing along together, lads ; we'll have a little song,
Kits won't be so heavy and the way won't be so long. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaB c DDdB dddB c eeeB c ffXB cXDDdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010101110101 1101101011011 1100110100010111 111100100 10 0101101101 0101110011 1101010111001 111100100 1011111111101 1001101110011 1111111010111 111100100 10 1010101110111 1110111111101 1011101110101 111100100 10 1010101010111 10101011110101 1001100110110 111100100 10 0101101101 0101110011 11010101011001 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; to, hurrah, them, and, 'em are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hurrah is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word germany at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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