This is an analysis of Epitaph On A Child by Henry James Pye.
Cruel the pang to hear the struggling sigh,
Watch o'er the faded cheek and closing eye;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXcc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 10010101001 11001011101 1101000101 0101011101 111111110010 0101000101 01110101001 1111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
