This is an analysis of Black Flag! by Edith Matilda Thomas.

Run up your Black Flag,
Skull and crossbones display!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abacbcc adaedee dcc abafbfb
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,3,7,
  • Metre: 11111 111101 111101111 11011001 01000001 10101001 101011011 111011 11111001 1011001 111101010 101011101 10101011 111101010 1111001 1111011 1101111 1010111 1001010 001111101 10010001 1100101 1001010 11101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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