This is an analysis of The Temperance Army by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Though you see no banded army,
Though you hear no cannons rattle,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbccc ddcdeeX XfgfbbX ffafhhh gcdciii Xjjjiii cbabeee Xfdadccc
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,
- Metre: 11111010 11111010 11001010 11100110 1111111 1110101 1111111 01111110 01111110 11100110 10101110 0010011 1111111 11110101 11101110 10111011 11111010 01101111 1010101 1010111 0110111 11111001 11111111 11101010 11101111 1010111 1001011 1011111 11111010 11111110 11101110 11101110 1001111 1011111 0000101 11101010 00101010 11111010 00101010 1110111 1110101 1010111 001010010 11111010 11101010 10100010 0110101 1110101 11111001 11111011 10101010 10101010 11111110 10011111 1110111 1110111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 63
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, us, you, though
Anaphora
though, we, if, you
Epiphora
us
