This is an analysis of Bunhill’s Fields by Anne Barbara Ridler.

Under cool trees the City tombs
extend, and nearer lie…

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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