This is an analysis of Lucifer by Ina D. Coolbrith.
The World sweeps by! It is the end of Time!
Nay, not the end, for Time can have no end:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXdbecefXbge ffhbigcjekbXbhhb ddcbf jkiXjiibhXXiidcdffjkcak
- Stanza lengths: 14,16,5,23,
- Metre: 0111000101 1101111111 0100010001 110100100 0001011101 1011010101 0110010101 1010010111 1101110111 01011111010 1011000100 1101011011 1111101100 110010111001 1101111100 1001011100 0111111100 1101010101 0101111111 1101000101 100110101 1100110011 0101010101 11100111111 111111111 0111100111 0111011111 0111010101 0111011001 1011110111 1111111101 1101011101 0110010101 1011010101 1101111100 1011010100 1101010100 1001010101 11011101110 11101101001 1101110101 1100010101 0111011101 1001111001 11010111011 1111110111 1111111111 0101011101 1111011101 110011101111 1111111100 10001101010 1001010111 1101010100 0111010101 1100110101 0101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 57
Repeated words/phrases
end, their, that, failed, i, my, and, of, star, so
Anaphora
the
Epiphora
lucifer, star
