This is an analysis of Because by James Phillip McAuley.
My father and my mother never quarrelled.
They were united in a kind of love…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd ebXb fgfg hihi hjhj khkh lblX hehe mfmf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110111010100 1001000101 11010101010 1011010101 1101010001 11010101010 1101001111 11011101110 11110010001 1101110101 0111010100 1100011101 0111010111 01000110111 1011010111 1111011001 11110100101 1011010111 1111011001 1011000111 1101110100 110100100010 1101110101 11001101010 11010111010 1111010111 11010111110 1101100101 10111110010 1111111111 10111101010 1111011000 1001010001 0101110101 0101010101 1101011001 0111011111 0100010101 1011010001 1011011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, they
Anaphora
my
