This is an analysis of The Old Neighbors by Katha Pollitt.
The weather's turned, and the old neighbors creep out
from their crammed rooms to blink in the sun, as if…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabcdeedceddfXfeceXegbhgediXhidaXffc
- Stanza lengths: 36,
- Metre: 01011011011 01110100110 010111101010 111101110 111100 10110101010 111111110100 0101010010010 101011100010 00110010 010010 110010010 110111 11100100101 110111 01010101010 010011001001 10010001010 110111 100000100010 011101110 11000110110 1010011011 10110 010100101100 101010011111 111011 1001110010100 111001 0100101001010 1101000110 110011101101 010101 1101011101 110100100111 101001101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 36