This is an analysis of The German-American by Katharine Lee Bates.
HONOR to him whose very blood remembers
The old, enchanted dream-song of the Rhine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccXdeXdfeef
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 10011101010 0101011001 1101010101 010110101010 110101010110 0101010101 1101111101 1010010111010 11011101110 0111010101 1001010101 00111101010 11000101010 0100110111 01001001101 10011101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
of, for, his
