This is an analysis of Mourning Women by Mathilde Blind.

All veiled in black, with faces hid from sight,
Crouching together in the jolting cart,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa bbXbbX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101010101 1001000101 1111110101 0101000101 010101001 11011100111 10110001001 1100010001 1101011101 0111000101 1111011011 1101010101 1101110101 1111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

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