This is an analysis of Old Verses by Radclyffe Hall.

I made a little funeral pyre,
And on it laid my youthful rhymes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101010010 11011101 110100010 11010111 11101011 11011110 11110111 11011100 11011101 11011101 110111001 11000101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

and, i

Anaphora

and, i