This is an analysis of The Last Charge by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Now, men of the North! will you join in the strife
For country, for freedom, for honor, for life?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecc ffff gghhXhhhh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11001011001 11011011011 01011001011 11101001001 11001011001 11101011011 11011011001 101101101001 11011011001 11101001101 11101001101 11101101101 11011011011 11001101101 01011001001 01101011001 010011101011 01101011001 11001011001 110110101011 01001111011 101001001001 11011001001 01011001011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
for, and
Anaphora
the