This is an analysis of Epilogue: 1908 by Christopher John Brennan.
The droning tram swings westward: shrill
the wire sings overhead, and chill…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXd eeddffffdXeeeeeegghhiibbddffjjjjeeddkXgXddee XXllbbgglleeeXaaggdbXejjcckkeejjaaXjeX ggmmnnllXgeeeeeeiigXeeeekkoommaaddee
- Stanza lengths: 8,44,38,36,
- Metre: 01011101 010110111 11011001 11010111 011100110 110101010 110101110 01010000 11010101 01010101 01011101 10110101 11100101 00100101 11111101 01010111 110010101 01010101 10110001 10110101 11011101 01001011 10111101 11100111 11110111 01010101 10111101 110011101 11011101 10010101 11011101 010100101 11110101 01100101 11010101 10000101 01010101 11010111 110110111 01010101 110000100 11010100 11010101 11110101 01011110 01001100 11110001 0100101010 01000101 01010111 1011011 11110111 00110111 11110111 110111001 11110111 10011111 11010110 11001101 110100101 10111101 11111101 10011101 11111101 11011111 01011100 1110011 01110001 11010101 11011111 101010101 11010001 10101110 01010111 01111101 11111001 111111110 0111010010 10110101 11110101 11110011 01010101 110001001 101001001 010010101 11110101 11000101 11010101 111100001 01110110 11011111 11010001 10110111 100100101 11010101 11011101 11110101 11110001 010101100 01100001 11111101 11110001 11010111 11010001 11001101 1111101 11110111 01101101 01011001 11010101 00010001 11001101 10011111 11010101 111100011 11010000 01000101 10011101 1101101011 01110100 01111101 01110111 10010111 10010101 11001101 01000101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 126
Repeated words/phrases
and, their, of, her
Anaphora
the, and, these
