This is an analysis of The Babylonian Captivity by Charles Harpur.
By far Euphrates’ stream we state,
A weary band of herded slaves,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dbdb efef acac gggg fdfd bebe edeX hbhb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010111 01010101 110101001 11000101 11111111 11110101 11011101 11110101 11111101 11010101 01010101 11110101 11010001 01010101 11110101 11000101 11100011 110011111 11111101 110010101 11110101 10011101 10110111 11010001 11011111 11110101 11010001 11010101 11110101 010101001 11011101 11111101 111101101 11010011 10011101 01111100 11100101 1101011 11110101 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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