This is an analysis of By The Potomac by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves
By the Potomac; and the crisp ground-flower…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXdXcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01110101001 10010101110 10110101010 0111010111 0101000111 11010100110 010100110110 00010010101 10110010001 0111011100 1101000101 1101110101 0101000101 1111010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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