This is an analysis of Death In A Ball-Room by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
Oh many, many thus have died, alas,
Children, poor things! The grave will have its prey.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababb cdXdd efeff ghghh bcbcc ijijj kiXii hbhlb ccXcc cicii gigii cXccc bjbjj fkikk fcfcc ghghh bmbmm dadaXXbilii
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Metre: 1101011101 1011010101 11011011001 1011100101 110111011011 1100100101 0111110111 0101110110 1111111111 111101110101 1111011101 1111100101 1111011111 0111010101 110101010111 1111000100 1001110101 1110111101 1111000111 1101001101101 11011110101 1101010011 1011111001 11101111001 0101111010101 1111110111 1111010101 1111010101 1111111101 110101111001 1110111101 1111100101 0111011111 1111010111 010111000101 1011010111 0111110101 0101101101 10110110100 1100010011001 1101110111 1111111100 11011101010 0101011111 100111111101 1111010101 01110110111 1101000101 1101000111 111101010001 1011011101 0011010100 10101110101 1111110001 110101010101 0010010101 1011001100 1111111101 1111010101 101101010111 1111010111 1111000111 0100010101 1111110100 010001111111 11110101001 1111110111 11010100100 110101001001 0101001010101 1100011101 0111110101 0111000101 1111110111 111101010101 0101110111 1111011111 11001001101 1101011101 011101000101 1100110011 1101110011 0101010101 10011111001 100111111111 1110110111 1111110101 1101010011 1101011001 001111110110 1101111100 1111011101 1101010100 100101100111 111101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 19
- Lines: 95
Repeated words/phrases
and, so, not, her, she, to, all
Anaphora
a, and, she, to
