This is an analysis of Life And Death by Duncan Campbell Scott.

I THOUGHT of death beside the lonely sea
That went beyond the limit of my sight,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dedeXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101010011 1001000100 0100011101 1101011011 0101110001 0101010101 1101010111 1111010101 1100111101 010101111 0111010101 1101010111 1001010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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