This is an analysis of Stabat Mater by James Brunton Stephens.
Nigh the cross with sorrow laden,
Weeping stood the Mother-maiden…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccabba ddeffe ffgddg aXebbe gghXXh bbhb bc bbaaaa XXheehXbbadda
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,4,2,6,13,
- Metre: 10101010 10101010 1010011 10101010 10101010 1010101 11111010 1101110 1000101 10101110 10100010 1010101 11101010 11100010 1000101 11101011 101010101 1100101 00011101 10101011 1010101 10111110 10101010 0110100 10101010 11101100 1011101 11101010 10101010 0010111 10101110 00111010 10101001 11101000 10011000 0010111 11111010 00111010 1110101 01101010 01101010 0111100 10101010 11101110 1110101 10101010 10111010 1111111 11111010 11111100 1010101 10111010 01111010 0010101 11111010 11101010 001010010 10101110 11101110 001001010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
him, my, thee
Anaphora
with, pierce
Epiphora
her, him
