This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Marion's Men that begins with:
Our band is few, but true and tried,
Our leader frank and bold; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaabcbdcdc XefeghchXada cigifjajadXd hdddXhahjbfb Xdhdakgkdehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 110111 0101010 1100101 11000011 110101 1101011 110101 11010101 010101 0111010 010110 10010100 110111 1011111 011101 110011110 111101 1111011 110101 11110101 010101 1101010 010101 110101101 010101 1101010 110101 01110111 100101 11110110 010101 01011101 100111 1101110 110101 11011101 0111001 0100110 0100011 110101001 010111 1101011 110101 01000101 010101 1001010 010101 1111111 110101 11110100 1100111 11010111 010100 0111010 1111001 10111101 110111 11110010 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; its, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, its, the, a, grave, with are repeated.
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