This is an analysis of The Death Of Virtuous by Anna Laetitia Barbauld.

Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies!—
When sinks a righteous soul to rest,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbabcXcXdedeafafcacA
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 10011101 11010101 11010101 110110101 11010101 110111110 11010101 11010101 01010101 11110101 101111001 110100111 11010111 11111001 111010101 11100111 01011101 10010101 110111001 10011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

so, farewell

Anaphora

how, so