This is an analysis of Epitaph. (On A Commonplace Person Who Died In Bed) by Amy Levy.
THIS is the end of him, here he lies:
The dust in his throat, the worm in his eyes,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggaa
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 000101111 0100101001 0100101101 000101001 1010110101 11101111 100101111 101010101 1010110101 101101001 1011110101 100110101 1011110111 1011001101 101110111 000101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
his, this, in, never, and
Anaphora
the, never
