This is an analysis of The Dead Czar by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
LAY him beneath his snows,
The great Norse giant who in these last days…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabccdea fafXdXgX fhcc ehiXXXXX cjjajdhihdbhhhX hefgj eXajX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,4,8,15,5,5,
- Metre: 110101 0111010111 1001010100 0010010111011 0101110011 1001011001 1111010111 1101110001 1101111101 1101010101 10111101001 110011010 1011011101 1101010101 0011010101 1111 101111 10011101001 0101010011 0100 10100011 0111110101 0101110100 1001010101 1001011001 1110011000 110111110 1111110101 1101010101 1111011101 1111011101 1100011111 1111010111 11001111101 0101011101 11011101010 0111011111 0101010100 1111001100 0101011101 1101111101 11000101001 1101100 111 0101000101 1011001101 1011001111 11011110111 1011110111 11010010101 1101110111 1110011111 10110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
our, this, him
Epiphora
man