This is an analysis of St. Crispin’s Day Speech: From Henry V by William Shakespeare.
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc XdXeXabfagXebXcaffbhXhXXXXXXXgcfgggiiXdcbbgcXdbahc
- Stanza lengths: 3,50,
- Metre: 010111111 11110011010 111101 1011101 11001011110 0111011110 0111011001 01010101010 1011111111 1111110011 1111110111 0111011101 11011101010 10000101010 1101010101 11111101010 11111111110 1111101101 101111111111 10010010111 1111110001 1101011101 1111110001 1111011100 1101010101 010101010 1111011111 0101110101 111101010 1111011111 01010101010 110100110 1011011101 1111111101 1101111001 1101000100 1110111111 0100011111 1001101100 10110100110 00110110100 0101001101 110101111 0010010001 110010010 11110111010 1101110101 1011001111 011100010 1100010101 1101101011 1111011101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
that, to, i, not, this, day, and, we, be
