This is an analysis of Chagrin by Isaac Rosenberg.

Caught still as Absalom,
Surely the air hangs…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba XXXcXdXcXX XbXefedfXXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,10,11,
  • Metre: 111100 10011 001011 110100 11101 000101 010001 010111 11111 010101 0011101 001100 110101 11001100 1000101 001001 011111 111011 11111101 1011111 111101010 010100101 1100 11100111 11001001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

we

Anaphora

of