This is an analysis of Go Down, Death by James Weldon Johnson.
Weep not, weep not,
She is not dead;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBCddde fgggghh gbicXigcj jcaabbgb gXXgkbbhk bcjbcjbbe bkkidgbej hjXgdhggc jcfjaaXaBC
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,9,8,9,9,9,9,10,
- Metre: 1111 1011 1100010010 11010111 1101111 11010111 110111 10110110 11101001110 10111010 1011010101 1010101 111111010 00101010 1111101 1101011110101011 111 1111101001 11101010 1111 101010101010 101011011001 111001110 111010 11110101 11010011 10101110 1010010110001 1110111 11100111 1101101 11111111 11001010 10100 1110101 1101011001 11010110 1110 110 11111001 1110101 1110110111 1110100101 111111 110101 111111 111 10010101 1111 11010101 11011101 1111101 1111111 1010101 11101010101 110010101 1110010101 1111101 111011010 11100101 1110111 11010101 1010101 0001001010 100111 111110101 10101010 1101011110101 111010001 101010101 11010001 11010111 111 1111 1011 1100010010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 76
Repeated words/phrases
weep, not, his, and, call, death, she's, he, she
Anaphora
and, she's, she
Epiphora
more, pity, rest