This is an analysis of Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer by Jack Gilbert.
I'd walk her home after work
buying roses and talking of Bechsteins.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXddbaefbgcfeaXfbgf X
- Stanza lengths: 24,1,
- Metre: 1101101 1010110010 11101 01111001 110110 111101 101 1101001 100101 0011 11 11011 11101 0110 111 10 1100111 1001 11110 111100010 1 1010011 11 1 0100010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 26
