This is an analysis of An American To France by Alice Duer Miller.
O FRANCE, with what a shamed and sorry smile
We now recall that in a bygone day…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaeaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101011101 1101100111 1101110101 1001011101 10110101110 1101000101 01110100110 1111110101 1101111111 0101011101 1111010100 1111111111 1101011101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
we
