This is an analysis of After Hearing A Waltz By Bartok by Amy Lowell.
But why did I kill him? Why? Why?
In the small, gilded room, near the stair?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababba bcbccb dedeed dfdXfd ghghhg didiXd jhjhhj kbkbbk lalaal imimmi djXjjd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11011111 001101101 11111001 101101001 111010001 11001011 11111111 11101011 11011011 101001111 011101111 01101001 11111101 111001001 01111001 11001111 101101001 111001101 101001111 111101101 101000011 111001000 111001001 001001011 1110110101 011010101 101001111 111111010 001100011 11001011 111101001 111111001 111001001 101011111 101011011 111101011 101001011 01101101 001111001 01101010 111111101 01101101 111101101 101001101 111101001 001001001 01010101 111101001 111001001 101001001 01111001 11011111 111111101 111011001 101110011 111111011 1011111001 011001001 11011011 01101101 111111111 111111001 111101101 110001001 111101111 1111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
why, his, i, of, in, and, my, one, three, two
Anaphora
i, of, one, and
Anadiplosis
i, fear
