This is an analysis of Our Privilege by Francis Bret Harte.

Not ours, where battle smoke upcurls,
And battle dews lie wet,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb dece efbf bgdgXfdfd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11110110 110111 01011101 111101 11010101 010101 01011101 011101 01110101 011101 11000101 010111 11010101 111101 01110111 111101 01111111 1101001 01111101 110101 11011111 0100111 11010111 010101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Anaphora

the, and