This is an analysis of The War-Elegies Of Tyrtæus, Imitated: Elegy I. by Henry James Pye.
Not mine to sing the racer's rapid flight,
Or the athletic wrestler's sinewy force,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedeefefeghggXgeXafaeeeeebebaiaijkjkgdgdehehegXg
- Stanza lengths: 56,
- Metre: 1101010101 10010101001 1101110101 0101010101 01011101010 0111010101 11010101010 11000100111 1101010101 1101110011 0011011101 1101000101 0111110101 1101010101 11010000101 10010010101 0011000101 0101010111 011000101 0101010101 01010010111 01011101010 11010010101 1001000101 1101100110 1101010101 1101010101 1011110101 0001011101 0101010101 01010101001 0101010101 0101011101 010010101001 01010100101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101000011 110010100101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 11001110101 01010100101 11011100101 1101000101 01010100101 110110101001 0111110111 11001010101 100111101 1001011101 1101011001 1100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
tho', his, of, all, this, what, to
Anaphora
tho', his, what, such
