This is an analysis of The Crosses [little Lonely Crosses, The Crosses Low And White] by Virna Sheard.
The little lonely crosses, the crosses low and white,
They haunt me most in the silver hour…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXa bXbXb cXcXc dXdcd
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 0101010010111 1111001010 110101 11011110 0011101 0101010011101 11011111 111111 0101010 0101001 1101010110111 11011000 011101 10100010 1010101 11010001011111 01010101 1010111 010101010 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
follows, crosses
Anaphora
the
