This is an analysis of Asking In Vain by Charles Harpur.
Still his little grave she seeketh
In her mother-sorrow wild,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaBCBCCBXdXXBCBCCBXadad
- Stanza lengths: 25,
- Metre: 10101110 0010101 11001110 0010001 01101010 1010111 11110110 1110101 1011101 10101010 11101010 1111101 11100010 1100100 01101010 1010111 11110110 1110101 1011101 10101010 1010101 10001 1011101 10101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
her
Epiphora
again
