This is an analysis of The Bereaved One by Henry Kendall.
She sleeps—and I see through a shadowy haze,
Where the hopes of the past and the dreams that I cherished…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefghgh aiaieded
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,
- Metre: 11111101001 1010011011110 001101011001 1010010110110 11101001111 011111011010 101101011001 110010110110 111001101001 1111010111110 101011001011 1110010010010 111001001001 110110110111 1010001101001 1010010110011 111111111011 111010010010 101001011100 011011010010 001011111001 111010110010 111101101001 110010010010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, my, in
Anaphora
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