This is an analysis of Bereft by Arthur Henry Adams.
FOR nine drear nights my darling has been dead;
And ah, dear God! I cannot dream of her!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBcDedfXacghabddbcdicicji kBlfXcicaXhlkBcDdbaaddgec hchkgXkdgdccfabjffhicacfcfaB
- Stanza lengths: 25,25,28,
- Metre: 1111110101 1111110100 1111011101 010100101010 1001010111 01001000100 1001010001 1111110101 1101011011 1111010111 1101010101 10101101011 0101110001 1111111100 11010011001 1101010101 1101111010010 1101111111 1100110101 1001010101 1101010001 1101010101 0101001111 1111001001 1101110101 1111011101 1111110100 0101010101 1001010101 1011010101 1101010111 0111010111 0101000111 1101011101 0101010111 1101010111 0111011111 1111011111 1111110100 1111011101 010100101010 1001010101 1001001100 11000010111 1101010101 1110110111 1111111101 1100011101 1100110111 01001111111 1101011100 1101000101 1011100111 1110110100 1101010001 11000100111 0001010101 1100010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111011101 1100011111 1100110101 1111110101 1111110100 0111011001 1101011101 1110111101 0100111100 1111001110 1101010101 1001111001 1100011100 1111110111 1111010011 1111100111 1111111101 1111110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 78
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, her, she, to, not
Anaphora
and, i
Epiphora
dreams
Anadiplosis
her
