This is an analysis of Sackcloth by Brooks Haxton.

I made sackcloth my garment once, by cutting
arm and neck holes into a burlap bag.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdXeXcXeXacfXXbfggd
  • Stanza lengths: 23,
  • Metre: 11101101110 1111000111 0101110100 1101110101 0101010111 0101011001 01010111 01000110011 10111111011 10011111 11010110 1110101111 1110100110 111101100 110101111101 01000101110101 01011110011 10101110101 0111110101 110111010101 110111100011 10111000101 1111011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

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