This is an analysis of Melville And Coghill - The Place Of The Little Hand by Andrew Lang.

DEAD, with their eyes to the foe,
Dead, with the foe at their feet;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXab cdcdcd efefef
  • Stanza lengths: 7,6,6,
  • Metre: 1011001 1001111 100111 1011001 10100100 111 101101001 111101 111111 111111 101101 1101101001 1101001 1011011 1011101 1001001 1001101 1111101000 101101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

their

Anaphora

dead, nor