This is an analysis of Yu-Pe-Ya’s Dirge For Tse-Ky by Augusta Davies Webster.
DEAD, my beloved! This small purple weed
That grows upon thy grave shall have its time…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaaXb acaaac deddde
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 1101001101 1101111101 0101010111 111111111 1111011111 1011 1101011111 1100010101 1101111101 10001100101 1101011111 1011 1111111111 1111111111 1101110111 1101110101 1111011111 1111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
to, but
Anaphora
but, oh
