This is an analysis of Laus Deo by Sydney Thompson Dobell.
IN the hall the coffin waits, and the idle armourer stands.
At his belt the coffin nails, and the hammer in his hands.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabbccb XddXbdbXefghgXgegcbcicibbXhhfafgXbbdbfbfbfdehedhbjdhhjdkbdXkXaXadfadllfXbbbllbalbdgge
- Stanza lengths: 8,85,
- Metre: 001010110101001 10101011010001 010101010111111 1 1110111101010101 10110010110101001 1010101110100101 11010011101010111 1111111101101 111110010101 101111011111111 1 101111011010101 101111011101001 101011011011 1111111101101 1010111 01110111 1111001 11011100 11110111 111101 1011011 11011101 110101 01110101 1110111 1110011 1110101 1110101 10011101 1110101 101110101110101 1111111101101 111011000010001 111010111111101 1111011111010101 1011110101110 1 10111011011001 110101111010101 1010101110101 0011101110101 1101111011110111 1 11110111 010101 01010111 0100111 1111101 11101101 10101 11010011 10100101 10110101 10101 1010011 110101 101011 11101011 11110111 11101 1110111 1111101 111101 1101011 1011111 11011 11100 1011111 110010101 11000101 1111101 1110101010101 11101001010101 1101101110101 01110101 1110101 1011101 1011101 1100101 1110101 111101 111101 1011101 1011101 1011101 00101 1110101 1101011 01010101 11000101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 93
Repeated words/phrases
and, ', long, 'seven, she, her, he, nurse, me, deo, 'laus
Anaphora
and, 'seven, all, 'he, her, he, 'laus
Epiphora
again
