This is an analysis of An Epitaph by John Le Gay Brereton.
On a monument formed as a curving wave
By ceaseless waves, that break and waste,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X XXaa
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,
- Metre: 10100110101 11011111 110010100 10110101 11010001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 5
