This is an analysis of Are They Indeed The Bitterest Tears We Shed by Frances Anne Kemble.
Are they indeed the bitterest tears we shed
Those we let fall over the silent dead?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXaeeffgghhiiaa jjggaaddkklXaakkXXllmmaaXXXj
- Stanza lengths: 22,28,
- Metre: 11010100111 1111100101 1111011101 1111100101 1111011101 1101010111 1111010101 01010101101 11111101100 01010100101 1101010101 0111010111 1011010101 01010010101 1101011101 11010011001 1011011111 1001110101 1100110111 0101001101 1111110101 110110110001 01010011001 1111111101 0111110111 0111000101 1001000101 0101110101 1111010111 11010011001 11101011111 1001010111 1111110111 1111111110 1111100101 0100010111 0101110011 1011110101 1111001101 1101111101 1111100101 0101010101 0111110101 0101110101 1000111111 0101111001 1111110111 1101010111 1101010100 11011101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 50
Repeated words/phrases
whom, her, and
Anaphora
a, the, and
Epiphora
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