This is an analysis of Death by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

I.
They die--the dead return not--Misery…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcacddDD XefefbbDD
  • Stanza lengths: 9,9,
  • Metre: 1 1101011100 11110111010 0101011101 11010101110 1111011111 1111110101 01010111 110101 1 10011011111 1110011101 1111101101 1011100101 110111111010 11111111010 01010111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

thy, and