This is an analysis of The Fortitude Of The North by Herman Melville.

_Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas_
They take no shame for dark defeat…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X ababXacac
  • Stanza lengths: 1,9,
  • Metre: 1000100010010 11111101 110111001 111011101 11011101 01010101001 100111001 1101110101 01111101 1010010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 10