This is an analysis of Hope Deferred by Ina D. Coolbrith.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs, XIII,12
Where is the perfect Vision…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abXbcdcd aeaebfXf
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,
- Metre: 10110011101 1000110 001101 1101110 110101 1111010 111101 10110010 110101 1111010 1101111 110010 011101 0111111 0101001 1111010 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
days, and
Anaphora
the