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An Ecology by David Ignatow: poem analysis

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This is an analysis of An Ecology by David Ignatow.

We drop in the evening like dew
upon the ground and the living…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 11001011 01011010 1011101 11101011 1010010 111001 010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7

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