This is an analysis of The Living Lost by William Cullen Bryant.
Matron! the children of whose love,
Each to his grave, in youth have passed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccdd efefggcc haha iibb bjbjggdd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,4,4,8,
- Metre: 10010011 10010111 11010101 010101 11110101 010101011 11010101 110100111 11110101 010100101 10011101 011101 10111101 11011101 11110100 111101101 11110101 11011101 11010111 1100111 01011101 010100011 01011101 11010111 11110101 11000101 11010101 010101 11110110 11011101 110010101 01011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, ye
Anaphora
and, the
