This is an analysis of A Last Request by Alfred Austin.
Let not the roses lie
Too thickly tangled round my tomb,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaab bcbbc dXddX efeef dXddX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 110101 11010111 1101110101 1011111101 111101 111111 11011101 1111010111 11011101001 1111001 111111 10010111 1101110101 1101111111 1111110 101101 11110101 1101010001 01100010111 100101 101011 01010110 1111010101 1011111111 011110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
not, i
Anaphora
and
