This is an analysis of Keith Of Ravelston by Sydney Thompson Dobell.
The murmur of the mourning ghost
That keeps the shadowy kine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXX Xbcb XdXd XeXe XeXE Xfaf gXXE cfdf gXXE fgeg eXXE
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01000101 1101001 110100 0100110 100100 010111 1010101 110101 100100 010101 01110101 01111 11011101 110101 11010100 110111 01010111 010101 110100 010011 11011101 110101 11110111 110111 01010111 1101001 110100 010011 11110101 010111 01111001 111101 11010101 1101001 110100 010011 11111101 111111 01010101 110111 110101001 1101001 110100 010011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
of, she, his
Anaphora
the, she, his
Anadiplosis
she
