This is an analysis of Love, Death, And Reputation by Anne Kingsmill Finch.

Reputation, Love, and Death,
(The Last all Bones, the First all Breath,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddeebcffgghhiijjkkhhllhheeccff llhhXhmmXihhjjjjllbb
  • Stanza lengths: 34,20,
  • Metre: 1010111 01110111 010101010 0110101 1010101 100101001 1010111 11101111 1000100 1010111 1110111 0111101 1010001 1001111 1011101 1010101 1110001 11010101 1010101 11010111 1110111 1111101 1110101 1011101 1100111 1011101 11101011 11101011 1110101 1110101 1011001 0011001 1111111 1011101 1010101 1001001 1011111 1010101 1110111 1110101 01100011 110111001 1010110 0010101 1111101 1010011 1110111 1110001 1010111 1010001 1011101 0111101 01111110 11101110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 54

Anaphora

the, where