This is an analysis of On The Death Of Princess Charlotte by Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
Yes, Britain mourns, as with electric touch,
For youth, for love, for happiness destroyed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcadddXaeXdcfXaXXdXXadbggdXffe
- Stanza lengths: 34,
- Metre: 1101100101 1111110001 0101010101 01010011111 11100010101 1111010001 11001011101 0100110101 1111011110 11010010101 0110001101 11110001001 1101010101 01110011101 0110011011 1111000101 1101000111 0101000101 1101101101 0101110101 1101110001 11010010101 0101001110 1111011101 11001010101 10101010101 1011111111 11110001010 11010110010 1101010001 1101010100 1111011111 0011010111 111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
for, and, of, in
Anaphora
of, and
