This is an analysis of Cortège by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Four o'clock this afternoon,
Fifteen hundred miles away:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABab Abab abAB AbaB AbabXaBAB
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1010101 01101001 1010101 1011111 1010101 1010101 1110111 1100101 1111111 1011101 1010101 1101101 1010101 1010111 1110111 01101001 1010101 1111101 1011101 1010111 1010111 1101101 1010101 01101001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
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