This is an analysis of The Wise by Countee Cullen.
Dead men are wisest, for they know
How far the roots of flowers go,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb Xcc dXd
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 11110111 11010101 11011101 11011111 11011101 11110111 1101110 11111111 01110111 11111100 11111100 10110100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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