This is an analysis of New Territory by Geraldine Connolly.

Sent off to boarding school
at twelve, with a pair of oxfords,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXXcbXdXXXeXafeXbdfXcabX
  • Stanza lengths: 25,
  • Metre: 110101 11001010 01010110 10100100 1110111 110110010 011011 101111 100011010 101100101001 1011100110 0111101 101101010 01001000110 100101101 01110101 110111100 1110010110 1001110 101111101 010101101 110111010 010110011 0111001 01011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

and, one

Anaphora

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