This is an analysis of The Coal Picker by Amy Lowell.
He perches in the slime, inert,
Bedaubed with iridescent dirt.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXcXddeeffaaaXbaabbbXddggccXXbbhhXXbbhhiidd
- Stanza lengths: 47,
- Metre: 11000101 100010101 01010101 01010101 11010111 1101100 10010101 01011110 01010111 01000101 01000111 01010101 110111001 11001111 111100101 01010101 11011011 11110011 110100111 11010111 11010100 01010101 11110011 10100111 011100101 11010101 11010101 10110101 01110101 11010101 01011101 01010101 010101001 01000101 11010101 11110111 11010101 01011100 01010010 11010111 11010101 00010101 01010101 010101010 010101010 01110101 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 47
Repeated words/phrases
to, his
Anaphora
to, of