This is an analysis of On My Dear Grand-Child Simon Bradstreet, Who Dyed On 16. Novemb. 1669. Being But A Moneth, And One D by Anne Bradstreet.

No sooner come, but gone, and fal'n asleep,
Acquaintance short, yet parting caus'd us weep,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddee
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 1101111101 0101110111 110110010111 1110011010 0101011101 1100111101 0101111001 1111001111 10011111110 11011011010 1101110101 01010101001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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