This is an analysis of The Secret Police by Ken Smith.
They are listening in the wires,
in the walls, under the eaves…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabb X cXcaab X dbdaXebcaXeadX
- Stanza lengths: 5,1,6,1,14,
- Metre: 111000010 0011001 0010110 0010110 001010 11100001 1110101001 0110010100 1011111 11110010101 101101 11101001011 11111 111111 111111 01010011 10101101100 101110010 11011011 11111010 101011011100 1110101001010 101000101010 1101001 1011101001010 01101111 011101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
in, things, their
Anaphora
in, on
Epiphora
things