This is an analysis of the poem Route Marchin' that begins with:
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,
A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBBCCCAXX X ddbXc XXeeC aaccC cXX aaaac XXXXc bbBBCCCAXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,5,5,5,3,5,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011010101 01011101111001 11011101110101 1010001010111 00111 1010101 110010101010101 10111 011001010 100100011101010 11111 1101010001111 101110101010101 11110101010001 101110101010110 10111 11111001111111 101010101110111 101000011110101 101010101110001 10111 11010101111111 111011101010101 111110101110111 1111011011101 10111 10100111001001 10001100010101001000 1010011011010110 0111111111111 01010101010101 111111101111101 101001101011111 10111 11111101011101 11011100100010 10111101110111 11110011110101 10111 1101011010101 11010110010101 11011101110101 1010001010111 00111 1010101 110010101010101 10111 011001010 100100011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, an', at, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word first at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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