This is an analysis of Mockery by Leon Gellert.
I met my love a-weeping,
Weeping in the night-tide pale;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcccdeedffggcc abcccheXhiijjcc
- Stanza lengths: 15,15,
- Metre: 1111010 1000111 01010101 1011101 1101 11010101 111 0011 00111 11010001 11110001 11011101 11011101 11010101 11010101 1111010 1000101 1010001 1000101 0111 11010101 011 1011 10101 11010111 010101001 11010111 11110001 11100101 11110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
weeping, i, in
Anaphora
i
Epiphora
tomb
Anadiplosis
weeping, sleeping