This is an analysis of To Theodore Roosevelt by John Hay.
Son of a sire whose heart beat ever true
To God, to country, and the fireside love…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadededd X
- Stanza lengths: 14,1,
- Metre: 10010111101 01010101011 0101010101 0111011101 0111110111 0101001111 1001110001 1101110101 0111010101 0101010001 0101011001 1101010001 0111110101 0111011111 1011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
to, of
Anaphora
to, the
