This is an analysis of The Song Of Life by George Essex Evans.
Sing not of Rest
For heart, or brain, or the strong soul’s emotion…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbcXbACdeedC FghhgF IjkkjI lhmmhl
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1101 11111011010 0101100101 1011010110 01111001010 1101 1101 11100101110 1111000111 0101000101 11011101010 1101 1101 01110101010 1011111101 1101011111 11010111110 1101 1101 01110101010 10111100101 1011010101 11011011010 1101 1101 11011111010 1101000111 11010111000 111101001100 0101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
or, of, depth
Anaphora
sing, that
