This is an analysis of The Dead Bride by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
WITHIN my circled arm she lay and faintly smiled the long night through,
And oh, but she was fair to view, fair to view!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd XX ee
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 0111011111010111 11111101101 0101000101011101 11010111111 1101000111110101 110101011101 1101010111010111 010100010111 11011111111101101 111100011111 1101000111110101 110100011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, sweet, '