This is an analysis of The Army Surgeon by Sydney Thompson Dobell.
Over that breathing waste of friends and foes,
The wounded and the dying, hour by hour,-…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbccaacacaXdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011010111 010101010110 00010111010 1101011101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110001 1111001101 0101101101 1101010101 0101011111 01010100100 1111110101 100101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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