This is an analysis of To The Memory Of My Dear And Ever Honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq; Who Deceased, July 31. 1653. An by Anne Bradstreet.
By duty bound, and not by custome led
To celebrate the praises of the dead,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddeeffgghhiijjhhccggXfccjjiXiikkllmmXXccmmkkggXgjXdXbbiiaallbbddXXmffllggii
- Stanza lengths: 81,
- Metre: 1101111101 0101010001 11011101001 1011000101 1111011001 0111110111 1101011111 1111010111 11110111110 11011101010 1101110101 1111011111 1101111101 1101110001 1101111101 1101111101 1111111111 1001010101 1001010111 11110100001 1111011111 1101011101 1011011101 1111011111 110101001 1101000111 11000010100 1111111111 1111010101 1110000101 1101010111 1101010111 0101101101 1101011110 1111110001 1101111111 1101111111 1100010101 0101110100 1100011100 1111010111 1001110101 11010101010 10011011010 1111111101 1101011111 0101010101 1100110001 1101111101 1101010101 111111111 11010011101 1101100101 1001011101 1101110111 1101011101 1001011111 111111110 0101010101 1001010001 1101111101 1101010111 0101010011 11010111111 0101000100 0101100100 0101110101 1101101101 1101110111 1101111100 0101 010101001 11110111 01010101 01000111 01010100 01000100 01010101 00110101 11010011 011001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 81
Repeated words/phrases
i, or, his, to, he, in, and, for
Anaphora
who, for, his, to, a
