This is an analysis of Bunhill’s Fields by Anne Barbara Ridler.
Under cool trees the City tombs
extend, and nearer lie…
Browse poems by Anne Barbara Ridler
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cada cXcd Xece bfff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10110101 011101 10111101 01010111 11010110 1101001 11110111 10110101 1011101 0101010 111111 010001001 10110111 111111 11100111 1111111 1110111 101110 111011110 111000101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20