This is an analysis of Anastasis by Albert Smythe.

What shall it profit a man
To gain the world–if he can–…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddee cc ff ggaaXbbcc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,2,9,
  • Metre: 1101001 0101011 1101111 0110001 0100101 0101111 1110001 1101101 1101101 11100101 0010101 11100101 00101101 1100101 11100101 10110101 1100100 00100101 1111001 00100101 0100111 0111100 0111001 011001001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

you, of

Anaphora

the