This is an analysis of After-Life by Christopher Pearse Cranch.
O BOON and curse in one — this ceaseless need
Of looking still behind us and before!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbXbdadaececfcfcgXgcXhhhhcicijbjbhahaahah
- Stanza lengths: 45,
- Metre: 1111010101 0101011101 1001011101 1101010001 1101011101 10001011101 1110000100 0111110101 1101001101 11010101111 0101110101 0101111101 1101010111 1111011100 1101111101 0101110101 1001010101 1001011101 0111110101 1111001101 1011010111 11111111100 11110100101 11000101001 111101 0111 1011111101 1101110111 1111110111 01001011101 1101010011 1111110111 11011101001 1101110101 1001011111 1001010101 1101110101 1100011011 00110110101 1011110101 11110011101 1111110101 0101010101 11010101001 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
of, we, and, in
Anaphora
some, somewhere
