This is an analysis of Burial Of The Dead by John Keble.
I thought to meet no more, so dreary seem'd
Death's interposing veil, and thou so pure,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb caXd befg dheb gXgi chXj jeka falg mhbe ijgg Xhme jlak XXgh gXje aXhd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101111101 1100011111 110101 011111 10010111001 011100100001 110011 111101 0111110011 0101010111 1100111 11011001 0111010101 1011010101 1001010 110111 11010110101 01011100010 010011 110111 1111010101 0111011111 0100101 110011 1111010111 11011110101 101111 110101 1101110111 0101011101 000101 1100101 1111010111 1101000111 110101 010110 10001111001 11001100101 111101 0101001 1101000101 0011100111 110101 100111 01010100101 11001011011 100101 011101 11010111010 11011011101 110101 111111 1111111101 11111111010 111111 1100101 1111011101 11110111010 010111 0111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
and, we
Anaphora
the, so, thou
Anadiplosis
low
