This is an analysis of Hector by David McKee Wright.

He strode across the schoolroom in July,
Great Hector, clanging in his brazen mail;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba bacbca
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101011001 1101000101 1101010101 10010011101 0101011111 1011110111 0111010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 1111110001 1111110011 1101110111 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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