This is an analysis of the poem Isandlwana that begins with:
Scarlet coats, and crash o' the band,
The grey of a pauper's gown,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cbcbdddb cbcbXeeb cbcbcccb abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 0100101 01010100 10100101 110110101 101101 11111011 1110101 010110101 0101010101 111010101 110101 11110101 110101 101111101 010101 01110111 00101101101 010101101 1110101 111011111 110101 010011100 110101 110110111 1011100111 11110101 110101 10111001 011101 01011100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, his, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, it's, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word town at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Isandlwana;
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- history of its creation;
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