This is an analysis of To Our President by Katharine Lee Bates.
HOPE of the Nations, lift thy stricken heart.
Thyself art Sorrow, and to thee the cry…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbaccacca
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001011101 1011010101 0101011100 1100110111 1111101111 1100011111 01110110101 1101011101 1011010111 0101010101 1101111100 0110110001 1101010101 1100010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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