This is an analysis of St, Francis Xavier by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
The Apostle of the Indies
He left his dust, by all the myriad tread…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbbcbcc dadaaeaee fefeegegX dgdggagaa hbhbXbbbb didXijijj
- Stanza lengths: 1,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 00100010 11011101001 0111010001 1111010101 1111010101 1101110111 0101010101 1011011101 1011010101 101111110101 1101010001 1101001101 01110101001 0111001101 1111000111 11010110011 1111110101 1101010101 111101010101 1111011111 1110000101 11010001001 1101110101 0100110101 1111111101 10110011101 10101010101 010101010100 0111111111 1001010001 01111101001 0001000100 1101110111 1101010001 1001011111 1111011111 100101110101 1101110001 1101010101 1101110001 10010100101 1101010001 110100100101 11000100111 11010010101 111101010001 0111111101 1011010101 0101001001 01110101010 1011011101 1111011111 1111010101 1101011111 0001010010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 55
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, in, he, to, of
Anaphora
and, he