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…
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

