This is an analysis of Memorials On The Slain At Chickamauga by Herman Melville.
Happy are they and charmed in life
Who through long wars arrive unscarred…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXacdc edeXXe
- Stanza lengths: 9,6,
- Metre: 10111101 111101100 110101010 0110000110 010101100 110101 11011011 10110101001 1111001101 1110010001 1001010101 1101010101 00110101 0101000100 1001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Anaphora
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