This is an analysis of The Mourner by George Crabbe.
Yes! there are real mourners - I have seen
A fair, sad girl, mild, suffering, and serene;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeaaffgXcc hhhhiibbbbhhaabb ggcchhaajX cciibb kkggbbjjll cchXbbjjiimmjjcXbbcc llbbjjXccbbgg
- Stanza lengths: 20,16,10,6,10,20,13,
- Metre: 111110111 01111100101 0101010101 1001010111 10111101101 1011110101 1101010101 1101010111 1001110101 11010010101 1111110101 0101100101 01011101100 1101010101 1111110111 01010011101 1101111111 1111111101 1101011111 11010010101 1011110111 1111011101 1101010101 1111110101 11001011111 1001011001 1101111111 11110101001 1111010101 1111010001 01001110001 1111110111 1111010101 0101011101 1101011111 1101110101 1101110001 0101010111 1111110111 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 1111111111 1111011101 1111111101 11111101010 1101111011 0101011011 0101110101 01010010101 1101110101 1111111101 1111110111 01000111101 00110111001 1111000101 0111010101 1011110101 11010100101 0111011101 1101000111 1111010001 1111011101 0101010011 1101001101 1111101011 0101000101 0101000111 1101000101 1111111001 1011110111 01010101001 1111010101 1111011101 1001110101 0101011101 1101110111 1101011101 1111111111 01111100101 11100011101 0101011111 1101010101 10011100001 1111110101 0101010101 1111110101 0101010101 1011110101 1001011101 1001010101 1101111101 11011101001 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 94
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, to, his, she, them
Anaphora
and, a
