This is an analysis of Requiescat by Oscar Wilde.

TREAD lightly, she is near
Under the snow,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac bbbb dcdc acacXd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,6,
  • Metre: 110101 1001 110111 0101 101101 1001 111111 1001 101111 1101 110101 1011 101101 1101 111101 1011 111101 1110 111101 11010 101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

she

Anaphora

she