This is an analysis of Poem Delivered On The Fourteenth Anniversary Of California's Admission Into The Union, September 9, 1864 by Francis Bret Harte.
We meet in peace, though from our native East
The sun that sparkles on our birthday feast…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbbbb ccccccddeeff bbbbff gghheeaa bbaaaaiijjbb eejjeeiikkaajj eXhhaahhccbbXbbjjkkee
- Stanza lengths: 10,12,6,8,12,14,21,
- Metre: 1101101101 0111011111 1111111101 0101110101 1101010101 0011111101 11010001001 1101111101 1011110101 11001110101 1101011101 00110100101 1101010101 1011010101 11011010101 1101111101 1011110101 1011110101 1011000101 1011010101 1011010101 1011010100 01101101001 1111000101 1111100101 0111000101 0111010101 0101000101 1101000101 1111011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101110111 1011110101 1101100101 0101010101 1011000101 0101010101 1101110101 1011000101 1111010111 1101011101 1111010101 1101011101 1011000101 1011011101 1011000011 0011010101 1111011111 1111010111 1111011111 1001011101 11110100101 1101000111 1111000101 1001000101 11010101001 1101010101 11111101011 1011011100 11110010101 1011011101 1011010101 1111001101 101000101011 1111011101 10111101101 1010101101 1001011111 11010011001 10010101001 1011010101 10010001001 1001010111 11010101001 011101001001 1011010001 10110100001 1011110101 1101000101 1011010101 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 82
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
here, to
