This is an analysis of Prelude by Edward William Thomson.
We buried in Mount Auburn last July
The gentle, clerkly, wan old bookkeeper,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXb XX cXaXX Xc bXd bXd
- Stanza lengths: 3,2,5,2,3,3,
- Metre: 1100110101 0101011110 11010101001 1111011100 1101011111 1101000101 1111010101 11001010101 0111011101 0101000111 00111101010 1001110001 1101000101 1001011101 11010100101 11111000101 110000101011 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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