This is an analysis of Contemplating Hell by Bertolt Brecht.
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it,
My brother Shelley found it to be a place…
Browse poems by Bertolt Brecht
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbab Xcbbb cXXXdXXdabb
- Stanza lengths: 6,5,11,
- Metre: 1010111110 11010100001 110100101 1111010101100 11010110 1010111100 1001 11110101110010 01011111001 1010011110010010101110 011011101 01101111101010 1011111101 10110010001 101010011111 1100111001010 1010100 100100111110 101011010001 0100100001011 1001000010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
with, of
Anaphora
even