This is an analysis of Quiet Dead! by George MacDonald.
Quiet, quiet dead,
Have ye aught to say…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abab cdcd cccc dede adad fdfd fXfX Agag fhfh ijij iXiX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101 11101 01101 00101 101010 111010 111110 111110 11101 11101 11101 111010 111001 10101 111100 11111 11101 00101 01101 11111 111010 00101 111110 10111 101010 100101 101010 10100 10101 101011 11111 100111 111110 00101 101010 10101 101010 10101 111010 11111 0101010 01101 101110 10010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
have, ye, any
Anaphora
have, i