This is an analysis of Funeral, The by Ina D. Coolbrith.

The music was such discord, all,
The flowers they stifled so!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 01011101 0101101 11011100 110001 01011101 010101 111101010 011101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Anaphora

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