This is an analysis of At Magnolia Cemetery by Henry Timrod.

SLEEP sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc aaaa dede afaf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11001101 11000101 11110101 010101 01010001 01001101 11110101 010001 11010100 11011101 01110111 1101001 11011101 11011101 11110101 110101 11010001 101100101 11010101 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

sleep