This is an analysis of The Dead Child by Victor James Daley.
ALL silent is the room,
There is no stir of breath,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eded fgXg gdgd gbgb dcdc Xhhh igig djdj fkfk fdfd hlhl gigi ghXh fhfh mhmk
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110001 101101 111001 110101 110101 111101 010101 110101 110111 111101 110111 110111 111101 010111 110101 110101 110111 111101 010111 111111 111111 010011 111101 011111 010111 111001 111101 111111 010110 011101 011101 111101 111101 111101 110111 110101 111101 111101 110111 1101001 111001 111111 011111 011110 101101 1001001 111111 010101 111101 111111 1101001 111111 111101 010101 110101 110111 110111 1001010 111110 1110110 110101 011101 010111 110001 111101 111101 111101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 68
Repeated words/phrases
so
Anaphora
thy, the, no, i
