This is an analysis of To The Snake by Denise Levertov.
Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck
and stroked your cold, pulsing throat…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabacXc ddbXaeXeb
- Stanza lengths: 7,9,
- Metre: 111111111 1111101 1110110 10011111 01011110 10100100110 101111 1111010101100 1010110 111100111100100 011111 11 0110101011 111000010 011111101 1011000110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
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