This is an analysis of Lament by Arthur Henry Adams.
PEACE, your little child is dead:
Peace, I cannot weep with you;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacdcdcaeaeaefXfedXdgd ghghgfifif
- Stanza lengths: 25,10,
- Metre: 1110101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1111111 1110111 1111101 1110111 1110111 1010101 1011101 1110110 1110101 1010101 11100101 1111111 1111101 1111100 1110101 1011110 1111111 111010110 1111101 1011101 0111111 1110101 1011101 1010111 1110111 1011111 1110111 1110001 11100101 1111100 1111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
i, your
Anaphora
peace, i, love, you
