This is an analysis of The Burial Of The Poet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
In the old churchyard of his native town,
And in the ancestral tomb beside the wall,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaaXcaXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0011100101 10001010101 1110011101 1110011001 01110101011 11001010101 0101110111 0111001101 1101010101 10110101010 0111000101 1101010100 0100001111 01001010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
in, his, and, of
Anaphora
and
