This is an analysis of A Last Word (To My Mother) by Ina D. Coolbrith.
Not more removed with the long years’increase,
Through hours when storms upon thy roof of clay…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbaabcdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101001100 11011011101 1111010001 1001010101 1011110111 1111011111 1011110101 1100110011 1001111101 1011111101 1011011101 1111100101 0001110111 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
