This is an analysis of A Requiem by Herman Melville.

_For Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports_
When, after storms that woodlands rue,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcbaabdXaaXddddeccXefecgfgdf
  • Stanza lengths: 1,30,
  • Metre: 110101001 11011111 01011001 0101110101 11111101 100100101 010100101 010010100 0101110101 11010101 110101010 1 10010101 0101110 1001 10100111 01010101 101100111 010101001 11010001 100100101 1111110 101 10110101 10111101 10010111 110010001 1101111101 11110111 101111110 1
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 31

Anaphora

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