This is an analysis of The Letter by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL, DIED FEBRUARY 27, 1887
I held his letter in my hand,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aaaa bcbc adad efef
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101011101011 11010011 110111 01010101 011111 11010101 110001 110010101 110101 11010111 010111 01000101 010111 11011111 101110 11111101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 17
Anaphora
the, his
