This is an analysis of Post-Vacation Tristesse by Charles Harper Webb.
The Jumbo Jet has barely shuddered off
The ground, and I'm depressed. My scuba mask…
Browse poems by Charles Harper Webb
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXa XXa Xbb XXX bcdXddc
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,7,
- Metre: 0101110101 0110011101 11111111 11100110110 110111010100 01001011 01011000011 110100110001 001111110 1110111110 101011110 10001111000 100011110 11101001 1101001101 101011101 10101100100 11011111111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the
