This is an analysis of Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg.

The plunging limbers over the shattered track
Racketed with their rusty freight,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdef dbeXegh gijbid bheaaXd kkiji lbdlkcm ilfbXXcgk nooanbb ekdemk dc jjjjjc dccdbcaabXgccbbdgdk
  • Stanza lengths: 6,7,6,7,5,7,9,7,6,2,6,19,
  • Metre: 01010100101 10001101 11110101 101011101 01010101 011101 0111011 11011111 111111 111101110 110111010 11110100 011111 111010 101011 101101 111011 001011 010111 1110001111 1111001 111111 111111 0111 10011000100 110111 1111011101 11011011101 1011101011 10110101 10110011 10111101010 11100101 110111101 0101010 011011111 0111011 1010111 010101 0111010 0010101 100011101 111101001 1010111 11010101 11110101 11110011 101110110110 1101100101 001010101 11110100101 11111111101 0101100111 1111101101 011101 010101 0110111 11110101 01011111 110100 110100101 11011 111101 1100101 011011 011101 110111 10011100 101111 01101111 1011111 0101010111 01101001011 1010010011001 110101 10101 110100111001 01101101 101011001 0100101 1010111 00101001 111101 11011 1101011 1111011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 13
  • Lines: 86

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

the, a, we

Epiphora

love, break, mules