This is an analysis of At A Child's Grave by James Phillip McAuley.
A sky contused and rifted like a wound:
Red-amber gum exudes from the dark tree;…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXa aXba babXaba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
- Metre: 01100110101 1101010011 0111010100 1001010101 1111011111 0101011101 10010101111 1111000101 1111111101 1111010001 1011010100 1101111101 1101010101 0111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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