This is an analysis of A Worldly Country by John Ashbery.
Not the smoothness, not the insane clocks on the square,
the scent of manure in the municipal parterre,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddeeffXXgXgghXXXffhh
- Stanza lengths: 28,
- Metre: 101010011101 0100100010010 10100101000101 101111010010001 0110111100110010 11111010110 010110101111 110101101011 11010010010 11110101010 111100111001010 1011111010010 01111111101 110111010101 10011010101 01011111101 111100110110 01010010110 1011011101 11110101011 101111011 101101011001000 1011101010100 11001010111010 101011010101010 11111100010001 111010011111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
not, and, in
Anaphora
not
Epiphora
in
