This is an analysis of An Epistle. Desiring The Queen's Picture, But Left Unfinished, By The Sudden News Of Her Majesty's Death by Matthew Prior.
The train of equipage and pomp of state,
The shining sideboard and the burnish'd plate,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffccgghhiiaajXjebhhjji
- Stanza lengths: 34,
- Metre: 0101001101 01010010101 11010011010 11011101010 0011001101 0101010011 1101011101 0101110011 0101111101 1111110111 0100110111 1001011101 0101011101 0110110101 10010100101 1101110111 01011111101 0101111111 1111011001 0111011101 1001100101 0101010101 1100111111 0101011101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101101101 11010111110 1001010011 0110010101 1101010101 1101110101 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, my, thy, thus, to, her
Anaphora
the, to, if, thee
