Analysis of A March
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
Dreary East winds howling o'er us;
Clay-lands knee-deep spread before us;
Mire and ice and snow and sleet;
Aching backs and frozen feet;
Knees which reel as marches quicken,
Ranks which thin as corpses thicken;
While with carrion birds we eat,
Calling puddle-water sweet,
As we pledge the health of our general, who fares as rough as we:
What can daunt us, what can turn us, led to death by such as he?
| Scheme | AABBCCBBDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 101110101 11111011 1010101 1010101 11111010 11111010 11100111 1010101 11101110100111111 111111111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 416 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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