This is an analysis of Our President by Katharine Lee Bates.

GOD help him! Ay, and let us help him, too,
Help him with our one hundred million minds…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbdcdb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111111111 1101110101 1001001111 0100010101 1100010111 0001110011 1011011101 1111111101 1101110101 01001010101 1100010101 1001010101 0101100101 0100010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

him, help