This is an analysis of The Immortals by Isaac Rosenberg.

I killed them, but they would not die.
Yea! all the day and all the night…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdXd ceae cXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011111 11011101 10111111 11001101 10110011 11111011 01110111 11110101 11110101 11111111 11110101 11010101 11010101 01011101 11110100 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

them, in, killed, i

Anaphora

i