This is an analysis of The Final Tax by Ellis Parker Butler.
Said Statesman A to Statesman Z:
'What can we tax that is not paying?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbbX cdcd cdcd cdcd cdcd cece cbcX AXXX XdXd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11000101 111110110 01010011 1011101100 101111 11111 1111 11111 101101 111010 1111 111010 101101 11101 1111 11101 1111 11111 11101 11101 1111 11101 1111 11111 1111 11101 1111 111000 11000101 100101010 11111001 1010111010 11010100 110011010 00111101 100101110
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
tax
Anadiplosis
tax
