This is an analysis of The Wall Street Pit by Edwin Markham.
I SEE the hell of faces surge and whirl,
Like malestrom in the ocean--faces lean…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabcdabef XXgeef ccgeedXeeXaceaacee
- Stanza lengths: 9,6,18,
- Metre: 1101010111 11000010101 1101010001 1101010001 11010010101 1101011100 1111010101 1101010001 11001010101 0001010100 1101001100 0101010101 0101110101 1111011011 0101010101 1101011101 110011101110 1101010101 1001000101 1001110101 1001010001 0011110101 1001010101 1001010101 01011101 0101010101 0110010001 1101010001 0101011101 0101010001 0111010101 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
faces, of, and
Anaphora
the