This is an analysis of The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold.
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet,
Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aababaaXbcb ddbbeeaXeaaa XX ffXe gfahiffgahfffii jhkhjjljmmnnnkknbaXammaekkbcXefflnlnllaaccmmnnXjjajannn
- Stanza lengths: 11,12,2,4,15,55,
- Metre: 1111010111 01011111 11010101011 11111111 11111111 11010001 01111111 11111100 11111101 11110111 1111111101 01010111 001011101 11010100001 0101010111 11010101 11111001 11110101 010100101100 111111 10010100001 01110000111 01110100101 1111101110 1111011101 11110101 101010111 111111100 1111010101 1111 1100010110 1101011001 11110101001 1111010100 1011000101 01001111001 10001010101 1101100011 0100010011 0101000101 111111 01011100 1011010100 1101000100 1100011101 11000101 11010100010 1001001101 01011101101 01011101001 010001 00010000111 11110101 11111111 11001001111 1101011101 1110110101 11111110110 11011111010 0111111001 1011010101 0101011111 11111101000 1111010111 1101111111 0100011111 11101101 01010101 01010100010 110010 1111101111 1101011101 00100100110 1011000101 1111010101 0101000111 101001 1010010101 11000111 000100010 1110010111 1111001 0101001101 0101111011 1011010101 0111010111 111111111111 0101010011 1101010111 0111010101 1101010011 01111101 1101010111 1101010101 1110010101 111111 011011 101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 98
Repeated words/phrases
we, and, to, our, his, have, been, on
Anaphora
and, but, when
