This is an analysis of To Jessica, Gone Back To The City by Ellis Parker Butler.
Sence fair Jessica hez left us
Seems ez ef she hed bereft us,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdd XeXdccff bXXXbXgg eeXXhhXf iieh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,4,
- Metre: 11100111 11111011 11111110 11101110 0011110 1110011 1010111 1010111 11111110 10111110 11101100 11101010 1111111 11100111 11111110 11100010 10101110 11111110 10111010 11101110 1011101 11100110 1111011 1010001 11101010 1111110 11111010 11100010 1111101 1110001 11111011 1011010 1010111 0110111 1111110 11111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
she, we
Anaphora
an
Epiphora
us
