This is an analysis of A Poet's Epitaph by William Wordsworth.
Art thou a Statist in the van
Of public conflicts trained and bred?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec bfbf ghXh dcdc gbgb ijij klkl dada mhmh nbnb clcl cbcbXnhnh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010001 01010111 11011101 11110101 01011111 11001101 010011001 01001101 11010101 01011101 01110111 01110011 11110101 01011101 10111101 11010101 01011111 010001001 11111100 010101 110011001 11011111 11011101 110100101 01000101 110110011 11110111 01011011 10111111 11110111 010011001 110100101 11011101 101101001 11110011 10010001 11010101 11010101 11010101 01010111 10011101 11000111 11111101 10110011 01010111 01110111 10100101 11010101 01011111 11011101 01000101 11111011 11011111 101100001 01001101 01110101 110011001 11100101 11110111 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, thy
Anaphora
the, come
