This is an analysis of The Last Redoubt by Alfred Austin.
Kacelyevo's slope still felt
The cannon's bolt and the rifles' pelt;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc bbbb aadd aaaa eeaa bbff bbXX aaaa ggbb aaaa hhbX bbbX iiaXXffaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1000111 010110101 1010110101 1011110111 10010101 010110111 110100101 110100111 110101111 1010101001 1010011010110 110010111 111010101 0111111111 010011101 011011101 100100111 10011111 10011101 110110101 101100101 1010110101 1010110101 111101111 000101110 1110111010 100100101 010110101 111110101 1110100101 0100111101 11100111001 1110111111 110101001 1100110111 110100101 101111011 1001111011 110010101 101001001001 11010111 111110101 1111001001 010110111 10010111 010110101 110101111 1100100101 1101100101 010101111 1110110111 10011111011 100111111 10101101001 00101111101 01111101001 1010110101 111011111 111010111 110100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, many, their
Anaphora
and, the, many
