This is an analysis of On Reading Crowds And Power by Geoffrey Hill.

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Cloven, we are incorporate, our wounds…

Browse poems by Geoffrey Hill

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abXacadefefXg X eagXhXeegidh X ggihbacXi
  • Stanza lengths: 1,13,1,12,1,9,
  • Metre: 1 1011010111 101010011 1101011111 10000101000 10011010010 01000111100 110110110 100010100100 100010 1010010010010 10010110110 1111 1110011101 1 10101000101 110111111 00101011011 10111 0110010101 110010000110 11110110110 1010100000100 0101010101 1111110111 10111011010 00110001110 1 110110100 0101001101 00010000100 101110101 1011101101 011110010 1001111110 010010011010 1101000101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 37

Repeated words/phrases

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