This is an analysis of The Attack At Dawn by Leon Gellert.
‘At every cost,’ they said, ‘it must be done.’
They told us in the early afternoon.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AaaababacdcdaAaa
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 11001110101 1110010101 1111010001 1101111101 1111110101 1101010111 1111110111 1011011101 11110010101 110111101 1111110111 1101010111 0101010101 11001110101 0101110101 0101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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