This is an analysis of Epitaph: On The Reverend Mr. Penrose by Hannah More.

If social manners, if the gentlest mind,
If zeal for God, and love for human kind,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aabbdd
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 01010001001 0111111101 0101001101 1101010101 11010010001 0101111101 01010110011 1101011101 11010011101 1101010101 1111010001 1101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

if, he

Anaphora

if