This is an analysis of Music For The Dying by Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme.

Ye who will help me in my dying pain,
Speak not a word: let all your voices cease.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd Xede fgfg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101101101 1101111101 11111101001 111111 1010011101 0101111110 1111111011 110001 101101111001 1111100101 01001011111 111101 0100010101 0111110101 0101000101 010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Anaphora

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