This is an analysis of The Faith Of Old George Jones by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

War raged around this troubled world,
When I was but a lad,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbbb ccccdcdc ababcece fafabbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11010101 111101 10010101 110101 111101010 010101 11111111 111111 11110111 111101 11111111 110101 10010101 101101 11111101 110101 1111001 010101 11111101 1101101 10111101 1000101 111110111 101100 11010001 110101 11110011 011111 10010111 110101 01011111 011101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

for, they, fought, i

Anaphora

i