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,…
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