This is an analysis of On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born by Charles Lamb.
I SAW where in the shroud did lurk
A curious frame of Nature's work;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefghhhbbeeiibbjjjfgfXfaakkllaammXnnnoonnooffddoooppffg
- Stanza lengths: 63,
- Metre: 11100101 010010101 01001001 01010101 100101010 010101010 11001001001 11010001 10111111 01111111 10111101 11000100 10100111 11110111 1110101 1111101 1011101 11110101 01010011 11111110 111010010 001111010 111101110 11111001 1011101 1010101 1111101 01111100 01001101 10011110 11110111 1010101 11010101 01010101 11011101 00111101 10001011 0010001001 11011101 11011011 11110100 1101110010 10010111 1110101 01001100 1010101 1011111 1110101 1011101 1010111 1110101 1011101 1010111 11111110 10101110 1110101 1010101 01011101 1111101 1010011 1110101 11010101 0110100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 63
Repeated words/phrases
she
Anaphora
a, what
Epiphora
them
