This is an analysis of It Is There by Babette Deutsch.
These are the streets where we walked with war and childhood
Like our two shadows behind us, or…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXccdefefgebdebhXeegXaeihgeeXfXhbeXfgbaiibfbb
- Stanza lengths: 46,
- Metre: 110111101111 111110111 0111111 101 1011111101 1000011101 1001 010100111 1001010100010 10110100111 10111010101 010101 1010101111 111010101 111010101 0101011 111010 110001 010101 111111000010 11001100101 1010101010 111 010101 101010011100 0100110010 101100011111 111 1111001010 1111111111 11101011 011110011001001 1010010100 1101101101 1101111110001010 110 110101 01010010111 0100011101 01011101 0111110 01110010 111 11001111 1001 010101010101001001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
of, as
Anaphora
the
Epiphora
morning