This is an analysis of The Burning Ladder by Dana Gioia.
Jacob
never climbed the ladder…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcbbbXdXXefeccdcfcbXXa
- Stanza lengths: 25,
- Metre: 10 101010 100011 11101 001 11 11110 10101 110111 0100 11 0100100 010110 000100100 0111 1 01010 10101010 000101 0101 1 10101 010110 100100 11101010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 25