This is an analysis of Megalosaurus by Babette Deutsch.
A MONSTER like a mountain, leathern limbed,
With eyes of sluggish ore and claws of stone,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca bXbXdd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 11101011101 0101110101 1100010001 1011110101 1100111111 0101000111 01001101010 10010011101 1111110111 1101010101 0100111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, his
Anaphora
the
