Analysis of The Charge Of The Mule Brigade
Half a mile, half a mile,
Half a mile onward,
Right through the Georgia troops
Broke the two hundred.
'Forward the Mule Brigade!
Charge for the Rebs,' they neighed.
Straight for the Georgia troops
Broke the two hundred.
'Forward the Mule Brigade!'
Was there a mule dismayed?
Not when their long ears felt
All their ropes sundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to make Rebs fly.
On! to the Georgia troops
Broke the two hundred.
Mules to the right of them,
Mules to the left of them,
Mules behind them
Pawed, neighed, and thundered.
Breaking their own confines
Breaking through Longstreet's lines
Into the Georgia troops
Stormed the two hundred.
Wild all their eyes did glare,
Whisked all their tails in air
Scattering the chivalry there,
While all the world wondered.
Not a mule back bestraddled,
Yet how they all skedaddled -
Fled every Georgian,
Unsabred, unsaddled,
Scattered and sundered!
How they were routed there
By the two hundred!
Mules to the right of them,
Mules to the left of them,
Mules behind them
Pawed, neighed, and thundered;
Followed by hoof and head
Full many a hero fled,
Fain in the last ditch dead,
Back from an ass's jaw
All that was left of them, -
Left by the two hundred.
When can their glory fade?
Oh, what a wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Mule Brigade,
Long-eared two hundred!
Scheme | xabCDabC DdxaeeebC FFFAggbc hhhaaaxaahc FFFAiiixfc ddaddc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 10110 110101 10110 100101 110111 110101 10110 100101 110101 111111 1111 111101 111101 111111 110101 10110 110111 110111 1011 11010 10111 10111 010101 10110 111111 111101 10001001 110110 10111 11111 110010 11 1001 110101 10110 110111 110111 1011 11010 101101 1100101 100111 11111 111111 110110 111101 1101111 10110 100111 100101 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,350 |
Words | 250 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 9, 8, 11, 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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