This is an analysis of The Last Caesar by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbcXb aadeeX X fggffggf fgh Xdh X ibbiibib jff jfX bXff kkccffaa bbccaajj Xidd eeiigXddXciihhaXdddggeeXkk
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,6,1,8,3,3,1,8,3,3,4,8,8,4,26,
- Metre: 1 1111110101 01110000101 1111011101 0101001101 11010100001 0111010101 101110010 1011010101 001011101 1101110101 11001010101 111110111 1110010101 10010001000 1 1001011101 100110010101 1001110101 11001000111 0101110001 11000110101 1011111101 0101101 01010100111 1111101101 01000101001 11110101010 1001010011 0111010101 1 1111111101 01010010101 0101111101 1001010101 1100111001 1101010101 1100010011 1101000101 1111010101 01010101011 10001110101 1101110101 1101110101 1101110010 1111010101 0111000100 1001011101 1111110101 1111110101 1101011111 1101010101 11010010100 01011010101 1101111001 0101100001 0100010011 01010101110 10110011010 1101001111 1001101101 1111010011 1100010101 1101010101 1101000011 1111010110 0101011101 01001010101 1011110101 1111011101 0101000101 1100110101 1101010101 0111010101 011000101 01101010101 01101001101 1101011101 1011010101 1101010111 1101110001 1111111101 1101010101 1001011111 0101001101 1101010101 11010100111 1110111111 1101001101 111101111 1101010111 1001011111 11111101101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 94
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, that
Anaphora
and, the, of