This is an analysis of In Time Of Grief by Lizette Woodworth Reese.

Dark, thinned, beside the wall of stone,
The box dripped in the air;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 011001 01011111 000101 01110101 011001 11110111 110101 11111101 110001 01110110 100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12