This is an analysis of In Memoriam -- A. L. Gordon by Henry Kendall.
At rest! Hard by the margin of that sea
Whose sounds are mingled with his noble verse,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcdXeeefXgchei cbdccecfcjch kbbXbjXalg cialjcekfXlhX XXbXb
- Stanza lengths: 16,12,10,13,5,
- Metre: 1111010011 1111000101 1101110101 0111001101 1111011100 01010100010 1101111111 0011011011 0111010101 0101000100 1101111111 0101010111 1101110101 11010111001 01110101001 1101010101 0101010111 1111010111 01010010100 0101011101 0101010111 0101000101 1111111111 1101010111 1101011101 0101011111 0111000111 110101 1011 0101110101 11001010101 0101000100 1111111101 0101010101 0101011011 1111010111 0101011101 1100010111 0101010111 10011100101 0101010111 11010001001 0111011101 0101000101 1101010101 1101111011 1101000101 0101010111 0011010100 1100011101 0101110101 1101110011 1101111111 11110100101 0101010101 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
who, to, of, and, human
Anaphora
to
