This is an analysis of A Ballad Of The French Fleet. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
A fleet with flags arrayed
Sailed from the port of Brest,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXXcdc bebefgfg hihiagaX ajajkhkh XagXadad lclXihihXlclcfgfg
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 010101 100101 10100101 010110 1010010 111111 01001011 110101 1010001 0010111 0010001 10101001 110101 1010001 110011 1010111 1111101 1001100 010101 010111 1100111 110001 110101 110101 010111 1111111 110111 0100101 01001010 1001011 110010010 1011100 010100 1000101 1111111 0010001 0100101 011101 1101111 100101 010101 1011001 1010101 1010010 110101 1010001 110011 110011 1010101 011001 101001101 1111001 110111 1101100 111101 0110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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