This is an analysis of Night Subway by Katha Pollitt.
The nurse coming off her shift at the psychiatric ward
nodding over the Post, her surprisingly delicate legs…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbaXXXbXX Xccb Xc
- Stanza lengths: 13,4,2,
- Metre: 01101011010101 101001001001001 101010111010 101010110010 1010101101011 010001001110 100100010101 1010110110111 1001101100 0111101011010 1101111101010 10101111001 10110111101 111010110101 110110111001 0110101101001 11100100100 11001110 010001101101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 19
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