Analysis of An Epitaph On Her Self.

Anne Killigrew 1660 (London) – 1685 (London)



When I am Dead, few Friends attend my Hearse,
And for a Monument, I leave my VERSE.


Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1111110111 0101001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 90
Words 19
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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