This is an analysis of A War Chant by Virna Sheard.
O England! Thy foe hath hated thee long,
And his hate is a deadly thing;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa bcbbc cdccd eceec feffe gfggf
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1101111011 10100101 01100110111 1111000001 1101001 00101100111 11011001 01001011001 10010110101 1010100 111101001 00100111 0111110101 1111100111 1010001 1101001001 10101101 11101101011 1101101001 1011101 1100101101 01101001 1101101101 0101001011 0110101 1101101111 110110101 10101101111 1010110101 0101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
hatred, his, thou