This is an analysis of The Nation Builders by George Essex Evans.
A handful of workers seeking the star of a strong intent -
A handful of heroes scattered to conquer a continent -…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccCC ddeeccCc aaffbbCc ffccaaaaCC ggffhhCc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,10,8,
- Metre: 011010100100101 011010100100100 1110110111011 10111101110111001 101001001011110111 1010010101101001 1011110100111001001 1010010101110101 011010101011001 0110101000100101 1011011101100111 101111010010100101 11101011001010101 1100101111110111 1111010010110111 1010010101110101 10100101100100111 1111111100100101 10111101111010111 1010110111110111 00101101010100111 001001101011100101 1111010010110111 10100101011101001 00111001001011001 101010101011111101 00100101010100101 101001011100100101 0010010011100100101 00100101111100101 10101101111010101 11111101111101111 1011110100111001001 1010010101110101 11101001011011001 10110110111011 110010100100101 110100100100111 11111100101101 110101001110101 1011110100111001001 1010010101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, where, on, by, in
Anaphora
a, and, to, on, by, in
