This is an analysis of To Those Who Loved Her by John Bradford.

Though gentle, loving, pure, and fair
A little maid of promise rare,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbC ddeeC ffffC eeggC hhiiC
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 11010111 01010101 11010101 11011101 1110 11010101 01010101 01110101 11110101 1110 01110111 01011111 01110111 110100111 1110 111101001 111101001 11001101 11000101 1110 11010011 11011111 10111101 11110101 1110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

have, her

Anaphora

with