This is an analysis of The Pack by Gamaliel Bradford.

A bit of metaphysics or a psychologic catch
Will sit upon my breast all day and scratch and scratch and…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 3,4,
  • Metre: 01010101010001 0101111111111 1100001010101010101011101100010 110111010111010 1010101110101010 101010101010111 01111100110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 7

Repeated words/phrases

and, scratch

Anaphora

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