This is an analysis of To A Dead Journalist by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

The busy trade of life is over now,
The intricate toil which was so hard for bread,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101010101 01001111111 0111011011 1011000100 0101101111 01010111001 1111001101 0101001111 0101011111 1101110011 11010100101 1111000101 1101110001 1011110100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

that, its

Anaphora

the