This is an analysis of Epitaph On A Nephew, In Catworth Church, Huntingdonshire by John Dryden.

Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear.
She always weeps, who laid him here;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11011111 11111111 10110101 01010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4