This is an analysis of Herod's Lament For Mariamne by George Gordon Byron.

Oh, Mariamne! now for thee
The heart of which thou bled'st is bleeding;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXababX cacadada eXeafafa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 110111 010111010 01010100 110101010 110111 111111010 11111101 1100011100 10111011 011101010 11111101 0111110110 11111101 101101010 10110101 111101010 11111101 110011100 111100101 111101010 11011101 010101010 11111101 1100011010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

thou, my, and

Anadiplosis

thou