This is an analysis of When The Grass Shall Cover Me by Ina D. Coolbrith.
When the grass shall cover me,
Head to foot where I am lying;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbccbdXXA AebbedccA AfggfXcXA
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,
- Metre: 1011101 10111110 1110111 1011101 10110110 1011111 10111111 10111111 1011101 1011101 10101110 1111111 1011101 10101110 1110100 1010011 1111111 1011101 1011101 10100110 1010111 1011111 10101010 1110110 1111111 1111111 1011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
you, me
Anaphora
you, when, now
Epiphora
', me
