This is an analysis of Grandmother's Story Of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It From The Belfry) by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
'Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers
All the achings and the quakings of 'the times that tried men's souls';…
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- Stanzas: 37
- Lines: 148
Repeated words/phrases
when, i, and, their, soldiers, nearer, ', they, we, beaten, he, creeping, his
Anaphora
at, the, how, who
