This is an analysis of The Cypress-Tree by Victoria Grace Blackburn.

Out of the clod of earth
That holds me to this melancholy place,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbbX bcacdXXdXXeXXbe
  • Stanza lengths: 6,15,
  • Metre: 100101 1110010101 110100 110111 010100 110001 1101010101 1101111101 010111 1110110101 011101 011111 1101010 11011100100001 1101000100 1001010101 000101 0110010 01010 1101011111 1111001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 21

Anaphora

i, my, a