This is an analysis of Bereavement by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner
As he bends in still grief o'er the hallowed bier,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcccbdedeabbe
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 111010010010 111011100101 11000110010010 11010001001 110011011110 111011010010 1011011110010 111011001011 11111101001 11001001001 11101011001 010111001001 010010010110 111011001101 01001001001 11101101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
his, of
Anaphora
as, when
