This is an analysis of Oh, Ye Dead! by Thomas Moore.

Oh, ye Dead! oh, ye Dead! whom we know by the light you give
From your cold gleaming eyes, though you move like men who live,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcddc eeffXggX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11111111110111 0111011111111 111111 011111 101101110111 010111 111111 10111111111 0010011111111 1011011111111 1111001 110101 001101001111010 110111 011101 111001111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

you, your, and, we