This is an analysis of A Dead March by William Cosmo Monkhouse.
PLAY me a march, low-ton’d and slow—a march for a silent tread,
Fit for the wandering feet of one who dreams of the silent dead,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa Xbb ccc ddd aaa ddd eeX fff Xdd ggg
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 110111110110101 1101001011100101 1001010110111101 110111110100100 100101011010101 111101011101111 110111111110111 100100111111111 1101111111000111 100101011100101 111101011100111 1111010111110111 111101101101001 100111010011111 1001011110111101 11110111111101 101101111101111 100101011100101 111101110010101 100101111100111 1001001011111111 111101111011111 1000101111100101 1101111100110101 111101111100111 1001010110100101 1101111011111111 1101101011101111 11011110110101011 11010100101101111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
and, for, us, they, we, which, with, to, of, that, as, but
Anaphora
here, ah
