This is an analysis of A Letter To Her Husband by Anne Bradstreet.
Absent upon Public Employment
My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeaaffbbggfXffaaggff
- Stanza lengths: 1,26,
- Metre: 100110010 1111111111 1111010101 0101110111 11011111101 11011001010 01011110010 1101010101 1101110101 11110111111 0111010101 11111101 0101110100 0011011111 1111111111 1101011101 1101001101 1101111101 11010100111 1111001101 1111110111 0101001101 0101011101 1101011111 1101011111 10111011 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
my
Anaphora
my
