This is an analysis of Death by Victor James Daley.
The awful seers of old who wrote, in words
Like drops of blood, great thoughts that through the night…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbaacaXac
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101011101 1101111101 0101110101 1101110111 0101101101 1101010101 1111111101 01010111001 1111010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111111000 1111110100 0100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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