This is an analysis of The Aisne by Alan Seeger.
We first saw fire on the tragic slopes
Where the flood-tide of France's early gain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX cccc bdbd ebeb fgfg fhfh hihi ibiX hcch bccb jbbj adda bbeX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111010101 1011010101 1011010101 1001010101 0101011101 1101010101 0011010101 1011111111 1011110111 0011000101 1011010111 10110011001 0111110101 1011010111 1111111001 0101010101 1011110101 0101010101 10001010011 11110110001 1011001111 1101010111 1110011101 0101011100 1101010101 0011010101 1111010111 0100110001 10100000101 1011110111 01001101101 110101001 101110101 1111110101 1111111100 0101111101 111101111 01110000100 11111011001 1101000101 1111001101 1110010101 1011010011 1011010001 1111101101 0111010111 1101010101 10110010101 1111000101 1101111101 11000101010 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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