This is an analysis of Death Of Gormlaith by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
Gormlaith, wife of Niall Glundu,
Happy was your dream that night,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbbbbXccdeffebddbadda XggX
- Stanza lengths: 24,4,
- Metre: 1010110 1011111 1110101 1010111 1010111 10011101 1110101 1111101 11101110 0111111 1010111 1010111 1110111 100111001 1010111 1010111 1110101 1110111 1011111 1110111 1110101 1111101 1011111 1011111 1110101 0111111 1110111 10101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 28
Anaphora
niall
