This is an analysis of The Charge Of The Second Iowa Cavalry by Ellis Parker Butler.
Comrades, many a year and day
Have fled since that glorious 9th of May…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AABbccccddaa eeaaffeXbbccbb ffbbeeffccgXhaa iiagddiiffXiXiigb ahhjjbbbccffaacX c AABbddccagkkff
- Stanza lengths: 12,14,15,17,16,1,14,
- Metre: 11100111 1111100101 111011100 101111111 110111111 111001001011 11110100101 1110100101 1110000101 101110111 100111101 1101101011 011010110 01111111 11111101 101111101 0110110101 0010101111 11 110010 1 1100111101 010110101 011100101 110110101 00101101011 101101011 101100011 101100101 11101101 1011111111 010100110 10101001 1001001001 10110101 1010101 1111100 101100101 1101100101 1010101 111111101 101010101 10100101 1110101001 110100100 000100111 111110101 000100111 000100111 011100111 1010100101 100101 11 10100100 011100101 01010101 10100100100 101 11101 1011110101 100111011 10100101001 1111101101 110001101 1011011011 1101 10111 011110111 0011100101 1111110101 111111101 11001101011 1110101101 1001 111001 11100111 1111100101 111011100 111110111 1111111001 111110111 11110100101 1110100101 11001001000 01001100100 01111101 01111101 01111111 0010101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 89
Repeated words/phrases
we, and, ', of, 2nd
Anaphora
and, the, twenty, into, how
