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:…
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