This is an analysis of You Will Die by Herbert Allen Giles.

You have coats and robes,
But you do not trail them;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababCb adaXCb XdXaCX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 11111 111110 11100110 111110 111101 10100010 111111 11111011 11111 11111 111101 10100010 11111 11110111 11101101 11011 111101 10100111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

you, and