This is an analysis of Sir Walter Scott by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
DEAD!—it was like a thunderbolt
To hear that he was dead;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcc badaee ccfcgg Xghggg eibijj gklkkX ambmaajgggbb bjajcc bndnaa ocacoo hXXXee fbXbcc eXlakk hebepp
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 10110101 011111 11110101 100101 11011101 10111111 010101001 010101 11000100 010101 11110011 11100101 01010101 110111 01111101 101101 11110101 0111010001 11000101 1100101 01010101 011101 11010101 0100110010 11110101 111111 01110111 0100100 11010101 10011111 11010111 010001 011101010 011101 11111111 10101110 11110101 010101 01010101 0101001 110100101 11001101 011001001 110101 010010111 100111 11010111 10010101 01010101 011101 101011101 110101 01110101 11011111 110010101 100101 100100100 010101 11011101 11000101 11010101 110010 11010111 110111 11110101 11010101 11110101 011101 11111101 111101 01001101 01010111 11010101 111101 11110111 110111 11101101 1111111 11110111 0100100 010110010 010111 10010011 010010111 01001110 010111 11111011 010101 11110101 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 91
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, ', thy, thou
Anaphora
the, and
Epiphora
'
Anadiplosis
friends