This is an analysis of The Conqueror by Katharine Lee Bates.

Not the Prussian, the forsworn,
By whose fury overborne,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXcXcddeeffXaXabXddccXgdgddcchhXdXddd
  • Stanza lengths: 40,
  • Metre: 1010011 1110100 101011 101100 1111111 1010101 0110101 1010101 1011111 0011101 1011101 100101 1110011 101001 1110111 1011101 1010100 0010101 101110 101100 1111111 10010111 00100101 1110111 11110111 1010011 1111101 1011101 10101011 1001001 1110101 110000 1110111 1011101 1010111 11100101 1111000 1010101 0110101 1110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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