This is an analysis of Alms for the Beekeeper by John Ashbery.

He makes better errors that way.
Pass it around at breakfast:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXXab
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 11101011 1001110 01001111001001010 1001111011100 111010010 0100111 0101 1100111 010011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 9