This is an analysis of The Latest School by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

See the flying French depart
Like the bees of Bonaparte,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddbcXX eebffb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1010101 1010101 1010011000100 101010100 11010100 11000100100 1010101 1010001 10010011010100 11010100 01001100 110001010000 1101010 111010010 1010111010100 1110101 1111101 111000100100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

you