This is an analysis of Epitaph by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

These are two friends whose lives were undivided;
So let their memory be, now they have glided…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11111101010 111100011110 10011111010 11110101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

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