This is an analysis of Epitaph On A Child by Thomas Gray.
Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
A child, the darling of his parents' eyes:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc
- Stanza lengths: 6,
- Metre: 11010101001 0101000101 0101110101 01010010101 1001010001 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 6
Anaphora
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