This is an analysis of A German Student’s Funeral Hymn by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.

WITH steady march across the daisy meadow,
And by the churchyard wall we go;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc efefcc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 01010101011 11011111 11010101011 11110111 1111011001 1111011001 01011101010 01010111 11010111110 11000101 1111011001 1111011001 11111101110 11010101 100011101110 11111101 1111011111 1101011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Anaphora

along