This is an analysis of A War Song To Englishmen by William Blake.
Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war,
Bring forth the lots, cast in the spacious orb;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcA acXdA eXbdA ebXeA bbffA gXXgA
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 0101010101 1101100101 11001100101 1101010101 0101 0111111101 1111110101 01111100100 0111010101 0101 1101011011 1111110011 1111110101 1101100111 0101 0100010111 10011001010 1001110101 11010101010 0101 1001110101 1001010011 0101110001 0111110101 0101 1011110101 010101011 1101111100 0101111101 0101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
prepare, your, for, of, our, cause, to, and
Anaphora
prepare, soldiers
Epiphora
prepare, cause
Anadiplosis
prepare
