This is an analysis of In A Graveyard by John Hay.

IN the dewy depths of the graveyard
I lie in the tangled grass,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcb daXa aXed eada caXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 001010011 1100101 11001010 011101 01001010 110101 11110010 1100101 01010110 0011101 01011100 10111001 0101010 00100101 10111110 10110111 1101010 0011101 101111110 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

in, on

Anaphora

the