This is an analysis of How Oft Has The Benshee Cried by Thomas Moore.
How oft has the Benshee cried,
How oft has death untied…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXbb ccaaXXdd eeffXXaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 111011 111101 111101 110111 101101110 101101110 110111 1100101 11001101 110101 1001111 1100101 110101110 111111100 110101 1100101 1011101 100101 111101 111101 111111010 110111100 111101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
how, thou
