This is an analysis of the poem Marching that begins with:
ONCE, and once again,
From the thick crowd of men,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccXX ddceecc ffghhXg iijffjj ffbiiXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 001101 1111010 110101 1010101 1011110 0110 111101 111101 1101010 111001 110111 0111010 1110 010101 1001101 010101010 010111 110111 10101000 0010 1010011 0010011 01111010 110101 1010011 00111010 1010 1001010 1111110 0111110 010111 0100111 01011110 0110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thro', sometimes are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Marching;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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