This is an analysis of Beranger's My Last Song Perhaps (January 1814) by Eugene Field.
When, to despoil my native France,
With flaming torch and cruel sword…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXded dfcfbdXX dbbbcdfd fcXcbdbdXfaeacdfd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 10101101 01011101 110010101 11110101 11010100 01010101 11000101 11011001 110011101 11011101 11010101 11110001 11011101 110100101 10010111 1011100010 11000111 111000101 11010111 01010111 11001101 00010111 11111111 11010001 11110101 11010101 11100101 11011101 11011111 11110101 11011101 11110001 01011101 11111101 11011101 01000101 11011101 11110101 11111101 01110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, my
