This is an analysis of Fame Is A Food That Dead Men Eat by Henry Austin Dobson.
Fame is a food that dead men eat,-
I have no stomach for such meat.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 10011111 11110111 01011101 11000101 01110111 01010001 11000101 01000001 11010111 110100001 11010101 10011100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
of, his
