This is an analysis of David by John Le Gay Brereton.
Eternal cold of silence, where each sound
Dies in its birth, and Death's pale henchmen meet…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdedec
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101010111 1001111101 011010101 11011111001 1011010111 01001111111 1101010001 1101000101 1111011101 1001011101 01110011101 1101010101 1101111101 110011001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14