This is an analysis of Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet.

All things within this fading world hath end,
Adversity doth still our joys attend;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffggdhiiiidhjjkk
  • Stanza lengths: 28,
  • Metre: 1101010111 0100111101 1111111111 1011011101 01010101000 01011101000 1111111101 1110110111 1111001111 1111010101 1101011111 1111100111 1011111111 1101110111 0101111111 10110101001 0101110001 1111001100 1111111111 1111111011 1111100101 1011011101 1011101101 11010100100 1010111101 0111101101 1101011111 1011011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 28

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