This is an analysis of Uncle Joe's Hail Columbia by Henry Clay Work.

Uncle Joe comes home a singing,
Hail, Columby!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXAXaXA babA XXXAcacA dXdAeaeA cXXAcacA XXXAcaXA
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 10111010 1100 100101010 1111 10100010 10101 10110100 1111 10101010 10111 011101010 1111 10111011 1100 11101010 1111 10011010 11111 10101110 1111 10101111 1100 10111011 1111 11101110 10111 10111010 1111 11101010 1100 11111100 1111 11101010 11101 11101110 1111 1110101000 1100 11111010 1111 10101010 10111 10111100 1111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 44

Repeated words/phrases

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