This is an analysis of God’s Gethsemane by Ina D. Coolbrith.

The gods looked down upon the worlds of space,
The multitudinous worlds that to their will…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbbXb XabXdXeebXcaed
  • Stanza lengths: 8,14,
  • Metre: 0111010101 01000011010 110010010101 1101010101 0111111111 1111110100 1001010111 1100011101 1111110100 10001011101 0101000101 0111010101 011001111 1100011011 01010010101 0101010101 0100111011 1101010001 1001110101 1001010100 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the