This is an analysis of Sonnet On The American War. by Frances Anne Kemble.

She has gone down! Woe for the world, and all
Its weary workers! gazing from afar…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXXcccddeee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111110111 0101010001 1011001101 1001001101 0101010110 100100111 1101110101 0111011101 1101111101 11111101001 1101011101 1001010111 1011011101 1101010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

to, of, and, for

Anadiplosis

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