This is an analysis of The Reasons by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
THEY sat before a dugout
In the unfamiliar quiet of silenced guns.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXXabX dXeefX X cX gXdXX chaccXdaX ciX acbbfcXX ahdcaX Xhdec digjjeX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,1,2,5,9,3,8,6,5,7,
- Metre: 1101011 001010100101 111 11010 1010101 11111101 11 1111010 1001001110 11111 11010 11010 110101 001 1010 111101 111 1111010110 1110 0101100100 11111 1011011 0101 110101 1100 10011 1011 110011 110 0100101 010011 11110 1101 1110 111010101 1101 1110 111 1101 1011101 1 1111 11101010 001 11101110 10101 1101 011101010 11 11101 1000 111010 11110 01111100 1100111010 101 101101 111 101011 1
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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Epiphora
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