This is an analysis of Silent Tears by Henry Kendall.
What bitter sorrow courses down
Yon mourner’s faded cheek?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcdcddXdbcdc bedeXccc
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11010101 011101 11011001 010100 11111100 111101 10011001 110101 11011101 011101 10100101 010101 01110111 010101 01110101 110111 11110101 110101 11010111 110101 01011101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
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