This is an analysis of A Burial by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Today I had a burial of my dead.
There was no shroud, no coffin, and no pall,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fgfg ebeb ccccXagag
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01110100011 1111110111 1101011101 1101010001 0101110111 1010010011 0101010101 0111010011 11001110101 1111000101 1001001101 1111010011 1101011111 11001111111 0101110001 1011110100 0111110111 1110110011 0101010111 1101010101 0101110101 1101000111 1101110101 0111010011 0101010111 1101110001 1101110101 1111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
no, of, my
