This is an analysis of New England's Dead by Isaac McLellan.
New England's dead! New England's dead!
On every hill they lie;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacaaaadede fdfdaa Xegebc aaeehhiiXebebfafafgfgfbfb
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,6,25,
- Metre: 11011101 1100111 110010111 110100 11010101 011101 10011101 010101 11110101 110101 11110111 110101 01010111 110111 11111111 011111 11001101 01010001 11111100 011011 10111111 110101 01010111 11000100 11010001 11110101 01000101 01110101 11001101 11010101 01111111 010110011 11111101 111101 11010101 111101 11110101 01010101 01110101 011101 01011111 110011 11011101 111101 01011111 0100101 01111101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, they, land, their, to, ye
Anaphora
on, the, to, and, that
