This is an analysis of In The Grand Canon by Ina D. Coolbrith.
The strongholds these of those strange, mighty gods
Who walked the earth before man’s feeble race,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbabbaccXXadddddeeddXX
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 0111011101 1101011101 11010101100 0101111101 101100110010 1101010111 1101110001 1101110101 0111110101 010101101 0100011110 0111111000 1111110101 0101110111 1111001101 0111000101 10110010111 1001100111 0111110101 1111010001 01010011101 1101110101 1111110101 1110010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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