This is an analysis of Cadet Grey - Canto Ii by Francis Bret Harte.

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Where West Point crouches, and with lifted shield…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbXbdXdd X efefededd X agagadadd X chXhcbcbb a ididihihh a bibibhbhh X jdjdjjjjj X gXgagbgbX X gjgjgkgkk c chchcjcjj a bXbXbkbkk X elelemXma X mdmdmjmjj g hghgllg ffffeeg X gjgjgkgkl X gggXgfgff X lblbldldd X ijijikikX X aeaeadadd X hnhnhkhkX X Xdhd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,7,7,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,16,
  • Metre: 1 1111010101 1011010101 1101110101 110100100 1101010111 1101010101 11010101110 0111001011 0101010101 1 1101011111 0101000101 0101000101 1001110101 0101110101 01110100101 0111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1 1111000111 1101010001 0101110101 1111010101 1011011111 1011000101 1111010111 11110101011 110101110101 1 1101010100 1111000101 1011010010 1101010111 1001110101 1011110111 110111011 111101110101 1010111101 1 0101110101 1111110101 1011010111 1011010111 01010101101 1111010011 1001111101 1001010111 1011111101 1 0101110111 0011001101 0111010101 0101011101 1111010111 0011011101 0101110101 01001010101 1101110101 1 11010101011 0101000101 1101010001 0101111101 11011100101 1011010101 1101111111 1011100111 1111001111 1 1111010001 1101011101 1011001101 1001111101 1011010111 0101010111 0011010101 0101110111 1101011111110 1 1111011111 11011101010 1101011011 00111111010 11110010111 00110101010 1101011101 11000100010 11110111010 1 10011110101 10010001010 1101010101 11010101010 11110011101 01110101010 01001011101 11001101010 11010101010 1 10010111010 0011010010010 11010011010 11010011010 10010001010 11011110010 11010111010 11010101010 11010011010 1 01110100010 1101110011 111101110100 11010101001 010100101010 1101011100 10010111110 0101000100 1101010101 1 11111101110 1101010101 11010111010 11010111001 111100111110 1101100010 11010111110 001100100010 11010111010 11 1111110101 1011001001 1001010101 1001000101 1011111011 1101110111 111111 1111111011 1011010101 1101010101 1111010101 111111101 1111000011 111111 1 0111010101 01100101101 1011110101 1111110011 1101110101 01010100100 1001010101 10010011000 11010001011 1 1101010111 1101011101 0101011101 11011101010 0101011001 11110100011 1101010101 0110110101 1011010101 1 1011011111 01111111010 1101110101 11010011010 1111011111 10010101011 1111011101 10011101011 10011100011 1 0101011101 00111101010 1111011111 11010101010 0101010101 01010101010 11111100101 11110101010 01110101010 1 1110111101 1101110101 01011100101 1011110111 0101001101 01000100011 0101010101 0111010101 1111010001 1 10011010001 10110111110 1101010101 11010101110 0101010101 11010111110 1101011101 11010010010 01110101110 1 0111010101 110110011 0001010101 1101010011 1111010101 01101111010 1011110111 01010111100 01011101010 1 10101110101 11010101010 1001101101 11010001010 1101010111 01110101010 1101110101 11011101010 01010111010 1 1101011101 01110001001 1101010001 1110010001 1011011101 10110001110 1011000101 00110101010 11010101010 1 111001100 0111111101 01111110100 0101111101 11010101100 0101110111 110101011101 0101011101 1101110101 1 1111010101 00110100010 1101010111 11111110010 1111011101 11010101010 1001010101 11011111010 10011101110 1 10001111111 0111011111 1101111001 1101011111 10011110001 1111110111 0101010101 1101110100 1111110110 1 10001110101 1101011011 110011101 1111010101 1101010101 1011111101 0011110101 11010101001 110001110101 1 10011111000 1111010111 01010101010 1011011101 11011101010 0111110101 10010110000 1111010101 0101110101 101 101 101 11101 101 101 101 011 101 111 101 101 111 101 101 101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 60
  • Lines: 305

Repeated words/phrases

to, one, of, not, yet, her, and, in, who

Anaphora

the, bright, no, in, of, not, soon

Epiphora

him, all