This is an analysis of the poem The March Of The Dead that begins with:
The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet!
We watched the troops returning, through our tears;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XefegegX heheijij XdXdcfcX eieiikikXadadabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011101010111 1101010111 1110101010101001 11111010101 111110111011101 0101010001 11011101010001 10100111101 11110111110111 0101011101 01010100010101 1101110101 01110101010101 1101110101 101111101111101 111000100010 101010101110111 10101010101 01011111110101 1101010101 101010100101101 0101010101 01110111010101 1101010011 101110111111101 1011010101 10101000101011 1001011101 101110111010111 1111110001 11111101111111 111111011000 010111011111001 1111010101 110011101010001 0100011101 101010110011011 1101110101 10100110111101 1111110101 111010101010101 0111011101 01010101011101 0101010001 111011111111001 1111011101 11011101110101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 455
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; triumph, and, they, coming, of, men, we're, us, our, cheer are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, they, a are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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