This is an analysis of A Desolation by Allen Ginsberg.

Now mind is clear
as a cloudless sky.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcd efbXXf bXaaea XXcXXdX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,6,6,7,
  • Metre: 1101 10101 11010 10100 11111 10011 00111 011 10011 110 11 10010000 11011 10101 1101 1101 1101110 01100010 10110 110101 0100111 100100 01111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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