This is an analysis of On A Painting By Patient B Of The Independence State Hospital For The Insane by Donald Justice.
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These seven houses have learned to face one another,…
Browse poems by Donald Justice
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X XabXXcdaX X dXcbabbXb X bebbXeaXb
- Stanza lengths: 1,9,1,9,1,9,
- Metre: 1 1101011011010 11100101011011 11100111111010 101001001110001 1100001001010 01011001001101 11001000101 1100110101010010 11101000101 1 11110100101 11110100101010 11011001011101 101111101011010 10010101111001 1010111001011 100100010010 101001110110110 1100100010010110 1 0101011001001 1010010110111 1101001001010 01110001001 11101011111 111101101011 10000110100100100 11001011111100 1101101101010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
of, children, their
Anaphora
they
