This is an analysis of The War-Elegies Of Tyrtæus, Imitated: Elegy Ii. by Henry James Pye.

How long in sloth's inglorious fetters bound
Slumber the brave?—The soft enchantment break.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedefgfgghghididagag
  • Stanza lengths: 28,
  • Metre: 11010100101 1001010101 1001010101 1110011101 1011100101 1101010111 11011100110 1011011111 1101010111 11110101001 10010010101 11001010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 111000101 1011110101 1111100101 1001010101 0111010101 0101010101 110011010001 11010100101 01001010101 0100111101 01010010101 1101010101 0101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

his

Anaphora

tho', to, his