This is an analysis of The Dear Old Flag by Julia Ann Moore.

Oh! we love that dear old flag,
That our forefathers gave…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcacc d XXccabX Xefdef fgfbgf
  • Stanza lengths: 6,1,7,6,6,
  • Metre: 1111111 111101 101100011 11110111 1111011 101101011 10 010010 01101 10010 1001 1111111 1110101 110101110 101001010 10011001 11101110 11010111 010111 101101010 111010 101111 111101101010 1010101 10110111 110111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

that, and

Anaphora

and