This is an analysis of To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley.
GRIM monarch! see, depriv'd of vital breath,
A young physician in the dust of death:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccccddeeddbbffgghhiiddhhiidd
- Stanza lengths: 34,
- Metre: 1111010101 0101000101 1111010001 1101011111 0111011101 1101010011 1111010101 1111110111 01010010101 0111010001 1101111101 110110101001 1101110101 0101010101 11111100101 11010100101 1100010111 1011110101 1111010111 0100010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111110101 1101010011 0011001101 1101110001 1111110101 1101110101 1001010101 0111010101 0101010101 0101000101 1101010101 11010010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
nor, to, of
Anaphora
nor, to
