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