This is an analysis of The Bended Bow by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
There was heard the sound of a coming foe,
There was sent through Britain a bended Bow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccccdX cC eefffX cC ggggXX cC ddhhfX cC ffbbgXXCc
- Stanza lengths: 4,6,2,6,2,6,2,6,2,9,
- Metre: 1110100101 1111100101 1011110111 1011110101 1110101 1011101 10101010 11111010 1010101 1110111 1010110101 1010110111 1010101 1010001 1011101 1110101 10110011 1110111 1010110111 1010110111 1010101 1110111 1010101 10101101 1011101 1110111 1010110111 1010110111 1110111 00101001 1010101 1010101 1111101 1110101 1011110101 1010110111 1011111 1110101 1010111 1110101 1011101 1010101 1010110111 1011110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
there, and, though, where
