This is an analysis of Death by John Le Gay Brereton.
He, born of my girlhood, is dead, while my life is yet young in my heart
Ere the breasts where his baby lips fed have forgotten their softness, we part.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccXXdeeffddeegg
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 11011101111011011 101101011101011011 11111111111011111 1111101111111001 111001001111101111 11001111111101011 11001111101001001 1010011011011011100 111001011111101001 1110101101111101111 11011011101011101 111011001101101101 10111111110001001 111001011101111011 111101001111101001 111101011101111101 11110101101001001 0101111101101101 111101011101101111 101101101101001101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
my, he, i, his, of, and, come, can, that, dead
Anaphora
he, can
