This is an analysis of The Lamentation Of David Over Saul And Jonathan His Son by George Wither.
Thy beauty, Israel, is gone :
Slaine in the places high is he.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcd XeXeXfag babXhhhX eXeXgXfa cbcbXbhb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101001 10010101 0101110 11110000 110101101 01110001 11100101 11010001 11010111 11000101 110101011 111111001 11010111 01000101 01011101 11011001 10111101 10010111 11000101 11110101 01110101 0111001 11110001 11011100 11010111 110101100 1110101 11110111 11011101 01010110 11001101 01110111 1101011 11010011 11010111 11011101 1100011 01010101 11010101 11110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
you, of, nor, they, my
Anaphora
the, nor, in, who, my
