This is an analysis of The Child's Funeral by William Cullen Bryant.
Fair is thy site, Sorrento, green thy shore,
Black crags behind thee pierce the clear blue skies;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XXac dede fdfd bgbg hehe ijij gXgX ebeb adad ffffXcece
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1011100111 1101110111 01110010101 1111010111 010010111010 1001010101 110010110001 1101011101 110101001001 1011110111 10001011101 11010101001 1001000101 11010010011 10110010101 0101010111 1101110101 1101110111 11110001001 11010110101 1101010101 1011010101 1101011110 0101010101 01010100101 0101110101 1101010001 1111010101 0111010111 01001010111 1101010101 11010001100 1101110101 1001010101 11001100111 1101011111 11010010101 1011111111 0101010101 0101010101 0101011111 101101101011 0101011111 0101110101 1111011101 0011010111 1101011111 0111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, to, his
Anaphora
the, and
