This is an analysis of The Broken Sanctuary by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

I 'ad been bushed in city streets,
Where the bricks and mortar grow.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabacXca bcXcdeae XXXafcXX dgbgXXgd dfXXXXde
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 110100101 1011101 1111110101 111111 111010101 1100111 1110110111 1010111 010100111 0010111 1110110111 1110111 1010100111 0010001 11111101 111111 11101010101 1110111 1110011101 1010101 011101011 1100111 1111110111 1110111 11100111101 1110101 1010100101 111101 111100101 1111110 11111111 11100101 1110111111 11100101 101010101 111001 1011110111 1111111 111111101 1111011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

i, an'

Anaphora

an'