This is an analysis of The Dead by Mathilde Blind.

The dead abide with us! Though stark and cold
Earth seems to grip them, they are with us still:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa cddcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0101011111 1101011011 111110101011 11010011111 1100010101 011110000 1000110010 11010111101 0101000101 10110010101 1111111111 0101110101 1111101101 1101001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14