This is an analysis of the poem The Red Retreat that begins with:
Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from Mons to Wipers
(I've 'ammered out this ditty with me bruised and bleedin' feet);...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XXXXebXb XfXfXgXg hbXXdbdb XiiiXbXb XXeXcccX Xjhjcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101010 110010100111101 110111101110 11011101011101 110110111011 011011010101 110110111011 11111110001 01010110101101010 01011111110101 010111011111100 11110101011100 111111001111110 11010111011111 1111110111001000 11010101011001 110111111101010 11001011100111111 011101111101110 011101110100001 110101111010100 1101011110101 1111010011000100 11111100010011 11111110101010 11010000110101 111101111111010 11111101110111 11010101110010100 11111101110011 1111010111110100 1111110101101 011101000101110 01000101010101 01001010101010 11011100111101 0111010101010100 11110100110111 0101110101111100 010111010100001 1110010111011100 11110101111100 1101110111110100 10110101011111 110111010111011 01010101010111 0111011111011 11010101010101 110110101010 110101001111 110110101010 010101010111 11011011101 1111001010111 1101101010101 010110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tramp, road, there, we, and, us, like, 'em, of, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, we, the are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase retreat connects the lines.
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