This is an analysis of To A Sexton by William Wordsworth.

Let thy wheel-barrow alone--
Wherefore, Sexton, piling still…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdd efefggcc cgcgggaa fXfXaadd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1111001 10010101 0111111 1010101 0010101 1110111 110110010 10101110 1010111 0011111 11100101 11110101 1010111 1010101 010111010 11101010 11101001 1110111 1010111 1000100 1010101 1011101 11101010 001010010 1110101 1010101 1011101 1000100 11111111 101000111 110111010 111101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

bone, by, his, and

Anaphora

by