This is an analysis of Dungeon Grates by Clive Staples Lewis.

So piteously the lonely soul of man
Shudders before this universal plan,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeeeaaffggbbbXhhaaXcffibijjffaa
  • Stanza lengths: 41,
  • Metre: 1100010101 1001010101 1100010101 11010101001 0101110011 0111010101 1111111101 10101010100 11010101010 010101010010 1101010101 0101011111 0101010101 1101110101 1011010111 1110110101 01011100110 010100110010 1101011111 0111010111 1011011101 1001010101 1101010101 0011111110 0101010001 10111111111 01010010001 1111010111 00010101000 1111010101 11110111010 10110100010 0111110001 10010 11111 1101110101 1111110101 11111101110 010110111010 1101110001 1111010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 41

Repeated words/phrases

so, of, and, we

Anaphora

so