This is an analysis of Possessions by Ken Smith.
They spent my life plotting against me.
With nothing to do but cultivate themselves,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaX bbcbccadbXaXbb eaca XbXXde
- Stanza lengths: 5,14,4,6,
- Metre: 111110011 01001110101 1001010111 10100011 10011010 111101 1100100100 1111110010 1111010110 1111110010 01001010 11001101111 1101010 10111001 111100101 01101100111 11001101011 101101011 1101110101 101001010110 0100101111 10100100101 101101101 111111010 111001111 11100110011 1100100101 0101011110 010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
to, when, i, of
Anaphora
when