This is an analysis of On The Death Of Mrs. Martineau, Senr. by Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
Ye who around this venerated bier
In pious anguish pour the tender tear,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddee ffggddXcddhhiijjkkXddkkaa
- Stanza lengths: 12,25,
- Metre: 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 11001110001 1101010101 1011001101 1101010101 1101100101 1101011101 1101011101 1101011011 1101010101 11110100101 1101010101 1101110101 1100010011 1111110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 10110001111 0111010111 111110010010 11010101010 10111110011 1111000111 1111110100 0101010101 1100010101 0101100101 11110010111 1101010001 0101010101 1011101101 0101100101 1001111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
each, of, you, her, from
Anaphora
no
