This is an analysis of To My Eldest Brother, With The British Army In Portugal by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
HOW many a day, in various hues array'd,
Bright with gay sun-shine, or eclips'd with shade;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeddffddddbbXXbbXaeegg hhffii iXbbhhggbb
- Stanza lengths: 32,6,10,
- Metre: 110010100101 1011110101 110110110101 1111011111 1111110001 1101110101 0101010001 11010010101 1111010101 1011001001 1111010101 11011001101 10111000101 1101011101 1011111001 1101011001 11010010001 11010000111 1101010101 0111010101 10110101001 0111010101 111100111110 11011010111 11010110101 10111101001 1101010101 1101111101 1111110101 0101110101 1101010111 1101010111 110010101001 1101010101 0101010001 1101011111 11001110101 1101011101 11111101010 1011111101 01001110111 1101111101 1111001101 0101010101 1101011001 0101111101 111000111001 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
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