This is an analysis of George Eliot by Alfred Austin.

Dead! Is she dead?
And all that light extinguished!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ab ccbdeccfghebiff dhXaeafcijgccejdkbidcglbcXdmddbcXbngcbbib agkadlndbmicXgbceX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,15,41,18,
  • Metre: 1011 1111010 111 1100010111 11010110111 1001010101 0111010101 1001010111 0111010101 0100010100 1101010101 1011001101 1001110111 1001010101 01011111011 1101010110 1111110 101 0111011111 01010100100 00111001011 1101001101 1101010001 0101010000 1101010101 10010100001 1101111101 1001010001 0101010111 1001010011 1101010111 1001010111 1000110111 1101010111 1001010111 1011010110 0101110011 1001100001 11111101101 0101111101 01110100001 0101010101 1101010111 11111100101 1101010111 10010101101 1011000101 0100110101 1101010101 1101010101 1001001010001 0101010001 1100010001 01010011010 1111110010 1001110111 1101010101 0101010111 1101 1011010001 1011000110 0100010101 1011000101 11010100001 1101001101 000100101111 1001010101 0100110111 01001010111 1100010101 11011111100 0101010011 10010010011 1011010101 1101011001 10010110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 76

Repeated words/phrases

it, and, of

Anaphora

the