This is an analysis of In Beechwood Cemetery by Archibald Lampman.

Here the dead sleep--the quiet dead. No sound
Disturbs them ever, and no storm dismays.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacacdXXXd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011010111 0101011101 10110100101 1011010111 1111011101 0111110111 1011110101 1010010101 1100001111 0011001111 10001101101 0111011111 1001010100 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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