This is an analysis of the poem An Army Corps On The March that begins with:

WITH its cloud of skirmishers in advance,
With now the sound of a single shot, snapping like a whip, and now an... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0010100001 01010010110101111 010010 01011111010111 1001010100101101 010111001000001 0010010101100101 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; on is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.

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