This is an analysis of Possessions by Ken Smith.

They spent my life plotting against me.
With nothing to do but cultivate themselves,…

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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