This is an analysis of Henry Bartle Edward Frere by Alfred Austin.
Bend down and read-the birth, the death, the name.
Born in the year that Waterloo was won,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddccd effeeffeeaaeea
- Stanza lengths: 14,14,
- Metre: 1111010101 1001110111 1100111111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101111111 1001000101 0001010111 00110010101 1101111111 1100011100 01011001001 1101000101 1111011101 1111010111 1111110001 1101110101 1001011101 1101010001 1101001111 1101111111 01011101001 110010010101 01010100111 10001110101 1111111111 10101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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