This is an analysis of Dirge Over A Nameless Grave by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
By yon still river, where the wave
Is winding slow at evening's close,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXab cbcX dede fgfg bebe hihiXcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110101 01011101 01010101 01010111 100110111 010101001 11010111 110011100 01010101 11010101 110110101 01011101 11010101 11011101 11111111 011111 11110110 11110111 11111101 01111101 11011111 01010101 11011111 11110101 010011111 11110101 11110101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, she
Anaphora
and
