This is an analysis of And The Greatest Of These Is War by James Weldon Johnson.
Around the council-board of Hell, with Satan at their head,
The Three Great Scourges of humanity sat.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdefbbaghcXA aXXaeibdafXA cjijXebXkbXklhbalgX aXh
- Stanza lengths: 14,12,19,3,
- Metre: 01010101010111 01110001001 1100101110111 1111101 11101110111 1110111 100101101111101 11110101011101001 0010111 1110111011100101 1110111010 1101111011 1111111110 1101001 110001011111 11110100101 11 10110001010101 11110101001001001 11110110110101 0011111101101110 1101001101001001 01110111010 1100111111110110 1111111110 1101001 1011011111 0111111101001 101010101 1101110101100 1111011101 1010110010 0111100011 0111010100010111 11010101010 110101010101 111100011101 00100101000101 111100100011001 1111 1101000101 111100101 11111110101 1101110111 111110 1101110111 1101010001001111 111001010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
i, have, and, of, his
Anaphora
the, i
