This is an analysis of Invocation by Herman Melville.
Ha, ha, gods and kings; fill high, one and all;
Drink, drink! shout and drink! mad respond to…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXXXcc dddbbX aXadXdd XdXddcXcc
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,7,9,
- Metre: 111111111111 111111010 01 1111110101 1 1111100100 1 11111001 1010111100 1 1100111011 10110101011 1111100101 101101101 101001110001 10100100110 1 111110001011 1110110110 1 11011011 111111100 1 011011100 1 1011111101 1 1111110110 1 111001001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
and, fill, drink, tide, who, in, with
