This is an analysis of Bereavement by William Lisle Bowles.

Whose was that gentle voice, that, whispering sweet,
Promised methought long days of bliss sincere!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddceffeXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11110111001 1010110101 1001110101 1111011011 1111010101 0111010101 0101000101 1111101101 11011111010 1101010111 1111010111 11010100010 1101001101 101010001100100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

that, of

Anaphora

of