This is an analysis of Prescience by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The new moon hung in the sky, the sun was low in the west,
And my betrothed and I in the churchyard paused to rest--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccbc ddXd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 01110010111001 11100110011101 10101101001110 01110111010001 110011110100101 0010011011010101 101011010010110 1011011010111 100101111101 101010110101011 10010101001010 11001010101100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and, in, tears
