This is an analysis of In The Churchyard At Cambridge. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

In the village churchyard she lies,
Dust is in her beautiful eyes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaabba Xcacca ddbeeb ffaaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 00101111 10001001 11111111 1011101 10100101 1110110 110100101 110100100 110100101 11010100 110010100 010110011 1111111 11010011 10010101 10110111 100100001 111110101 010111101 1010010011 010101110 11011101 011110101 011101110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

her, and, of

Anaphora

in