This is an analysis of The Chant Of The Vultures by Edwin Markham.
We are circling, glad of the battle: we
joy in the smell of the smoke.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdeddfef gfefXchcidad dgggejdjgceX ggeghcdcegig gXeXXgagXbab
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,12,12,12,
- Metre: 11100100101 1001001 1100100101 1011001 1010111011 11101001 1110101100 1101001 1110110111 1111011 1101101110 1101001 111110110 01001001 00100100100 1011101 0011101100011 1111 011010011110 11001 111010010010 01101 1100100111 1011011 1011101001 100101 010010010 11011001 110010110010 01001 1101100101 1001101 110110110 11101101 0100101100 01011100 11100010101 1100101 101001110 1001001 111101011 10100111 101010011 01011101 1110100100 1001001 110111010 110101001 111110010 11001110 0100110100 1001101 111110010110 11011 11101011011 101011 1110100100 1101101 1110101101 1011001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
we, of, vast, and, our, ye
Anaphora
when
