This is an analysis of A Song Of Defeat by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
The line breaks and the guns go under,
The lords and the lackeys ride the plain;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefGhag hchcffffififeeae XjajeeeefkfkGhag
- Stanza lengths: 16,16,16,
- Metre: 011101110 011010101 1111001110 1010111101 111110110110 1111010111 101111010 111101111 10111101110 1101111011 1111100110 1111110101 111110101 111100100 11111011110 111100111 11100111110 11011001001 1101011110 110101101 1111011110 1010110111 10100101110 111101101 10101101010 110101101 1101011010 01010101 101111111 111101111 111011011110 1111101111 00110101010 010110111 0101101010 10010101 10100101110 1010010111 10101001010 1010100101 10101111110 1010111111 1101001010 1100101111 111110101 111100100 11111011010 111101111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, it, my, we, of, they
Anaphora
the, i, we, and, when, they
