This is an analysis of To A Clergyman On The Death Of His Lady by Phillis Wheatley.
WHERE contemplation finds her sacred spring,
Where heav'nly music makes the arches ring,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccccddeeeeddbbffddbbddgXddhXhccbbggdd
- Stanza lengths: 43,
- Metre: 11010101001 1101010101 1101100101 11010110101 11110101001 1101010001 1111010101 0011110101 1111011101 01011110101 1011110101 1101010111 0101010101 1101011111 1111100101 11110011001 101100010101 101010100001 10101010001 10001110111 10110110011 10011010101 10001011101 10101010011 1011111001 10101010111 1001111111 11010010011 10011010101 101011101010 1111010101 110101001001 1111110101 11110110010 1101010101 1111010101 1101100101 11101010001 0111011101 1100010111 0101010001 1101110101 0111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
where, he, to, no
Anaphora
where, say, he
