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,…

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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

in, and, our

Anaphora

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