This is an analysis of Ballad Of The Armada by Henry Austin Dobson.
King Philip had vaunted his claims;
He had sworn for a year he would sack us;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc ababXcbcXababbcbc
- Stanza lengths: 8,17,
- Metre: 11011001 1111011111 011001001 1110010111 1010011111 11011101 111110011 111010001 010001001 0010101111 001101011 1111111011 110110010 11001001 110110010 111010001 101001011 011110011 11111101 1111110111 0010011111 01101011 011010111 111010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
he, his, to
Anaphora
and, to
Epiphora
us
