This is an analysis of Sonnet 11 by Alan Seeger.

Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed),
Comrades, you cannot think how thin and blue…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccccdcedce
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01110111001 1111011111 1011001111 1101101101 1101011000 1011001111 1101010101 1101110001 1111000101 1101110011 1101110101 1101110101 1111111101 1101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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