This is an analysis of Exile by Harold Hart Crane.

My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands, --
No, -- nor my lips freed laughter since 'farewell',…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1111110111 11111101100 1001100101 1001111111 1101110101 01011011111 0101001011 1001111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: ottava rima
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8