This is an analysis of the poem The Spies' March that begins with:
There are not leaders to lead us to honour, and yet without leaders we sally,
Each man reporting for duty alone, out of sight, out of reach, of... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc dcdcefefgf dXdhififXXf cdcdhfhfggff hjXjkfkff ejejcfcff dXdhefeff igiggfgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,11,12,9,9,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011010110110110 11010110011011010010 11110010010110110110 001001001001010010010 10110110 110101 1101011 110111111 1001001 110101 110101 10010101 1011101 11010110110111 1011101 100101 1101010 10011111 1010101 1011001 010111 111101 1001101 1111010 10101100 1001101 010101 0101001 110010 010101 010101 010101 100101 1101101 110111 1110101 1001101 1100111 1010101 010111 100100100 10101001 1100101 1011101 1010101001 1001001 1100111 1011101 1011001 110111 111111 11111011 1100101 110111 101101 1101101 10111101 0111100 100101 011011001 1100101 010101 1001111 1001101 1111101 1001101 0100111 11010101 1110101 10101011 1010101 1111111011 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, fall, in, not, where, or, we, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, the, now, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spy is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word spy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Spies' March;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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