This is an analysis of The Hope Of The Resurrection by Vachel Lindsay.

Though I have watched so many mourners weep
O'er the real dead, in dull earth laid asleep—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbXX
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1111110101 10011011101 1111011011 1111100111 1111110001 1101111101 1101111111 1111000101 1111011101 0101010101 11110101111 1111011101 1111010111 01111101001 1111010101 1010101010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

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