This is an analysis of After Defeat (Extract From Saul) by Charles Heavysege.

All's over here;--let us withdraw and weep
Down in the red recesses of our hearts,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbacbXXXadXcXd
  • Stanza lengths: 17,
  • Metre: 1101110111 1001100011 10110101010 11010001110 11111000101 0110110101 11110100011 0101110011 1001110111 01011010111 0101111100 11010111010 10101110111 10010101010 10010001010 1100011100 11000011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

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