This is an analysis of Killed In Action by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.

MY father lived his three-score years; my son lived twenty-two;
One looked long back on work well done, and one had all to do--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,
  • Metre: 11010110111101 11111111111101 11010101111111 11110101111111 10110011011101 11010101101111 11110101011111 11111011110101 11011101010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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