This is an analysis of From Peter Ottawa by Edward William Thomson.
COUNT up the dead by fever, shot and shell,
Count up the cripples, count all tears that fell,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXX
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 1101110111 1101011111 1101010001 1011010101 1011010101 1101010111 1111110101 1100110101 1001010111 01011101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
count, up
Anaphora
count
