This is an analysis of Champagne, 1914-15 by Alan Seeger.
In the glad revels, in the happy fetes,
When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXab bcbc deXX fgfg fXfb ahah bibi hfhf jfjf dkXk elel gggg blbl flfl ffff fifiXeaea
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 00110001010 11111101110 0011011101 0111010001 1011111111 0101010101 0111010101 1001111111 1101011101 0111110111 0101010110 1101010110 11010101010 0100010101 10010101010 1101011001 1001010111 01011111000 0101011111 11010010101 1101010101 0111010001 0101000100 1101010100 1001010111 11000010111 10010010011 0101010101 10001010101 1001010101 1011010101 1101000101 1011011100 1101111101 10010011111 0011100101 1101101110 1100011011 1111010100 1101011111 1101010101 1100010101 0101110111 10101111111 1111001101 11010101111 10001110001 01110111111 1111110101 01101001101 1101110001 001010101 01110101111 11010100101 1100010111 1011110101 10011101110 1101011001 10010001010 1111111101 10110111001 0101110101 0100011011 1100001101 10010001111 1111010010 1001110111 1111110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 68
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, his
Anaphora
and, the
