This is an analysis of War by Hannah More.
O War, What art thou?
After the brightest conquest, what remains…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaabXXaXbabbacXddXaXcada
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 11111 1001010101 0111010101 1011010101 10100010011 11111111010 1001011101 0101010101 0101010111 11010101001 0101110101 11001010001 10010011100 1101011011 0101010101 01110100101 01010011101 10010100100 0011000101 1111010101 1111011101 0100011101 1001010101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
what, of, with
Anaphora
of, who