This is an analysis of Dead! by Alfred Austin.
Hush! or you'll wake her. Softly tread!
She slumbers in her little bed.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaab ccXb dddb cXcb eeeb aaab cccb fffb gXgb hhhb dddbXaaab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110101 11000101 11110101 1111010 11010100 11111101 11011111 1110010 11010101 101100101 11110001 1011010 11011101 111101111 11110111 1011010 11111111 10110001 01011111 1001010 11110101 111011101 10111111 0111010 11010111 10110111 10111101 1100110 101111010 110101010 010011010 1111010 110011101 1111010110 01010111 0111010 10111011 11010110 11111111 1101110 01010011 10110101 11111111 1100010 11010101 11011111 010100101 0100010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, my, you, no, her
Anaphora
no
Anadiplosis
seek
