This is an analysis of The Clerk Of The Weather by Jessie Pope.

Re: HEAT WAVE
Dear Sir, we've had enough.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abbba cdddc efffe aggga
  • Stanza lengths: 1,5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 111 111101 1101111101 1100010101 1011010101 011101 111101 1101110101 1111010101 1101110111 111101 100101 0101010101 1111110111 1101010101 111101 111001 10010100101 0101010101 0111010001 11101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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