This is an analysis of Maktoob by Alan Seeger.
A shell surprised our post one day
And killed a comrade at my side.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fgfg ghgh Xiai ffff fjfj kfkf kfkf cbcX jbjb Xlgl kmkm gege ibibXdfdf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01011111 11011111 11110101 110111 11010111 11110111 01000101 010100 11001101 11000100 11010111 000101 11111111 10010101 11110101 100100 1010100111 11000101 00010101 100011 01010100 11111101 01111100 0100101 11111111 11011101 10110111 011100 10111011 01110111 11010001 001101 110110101 11011111 01111101 010001 111111001 11010101 11111001 011101 11111100 10110111 00010101 110100 10110101 10111111 01011111 111011 1101011000 10010101 10110011 111101 10011111 01111101 10111111 100111 11011101 11011111 11110001 110111 11011011 11110101 11010101 101101 10110011 11110011 01010101 110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 68
Repeated words/phrases
it, and, you, to, some
Anaphora
and, maktoob, the
