This is an analysis of Aunt Sally Speaks by Kenneth Allott.

Who have been educated out of naive responses,
The hoodoo of love, the cinderella of class…

Browse poems by Kenneth Allott

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbX Xbab cdXc aaXe Xeaa cXbc ebab aXdX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101011010 010010101001 101101110111 0110100 0111010100101000 1111010100 10101010111 11010111 10010010010011 10111001110 111100101110 10111 1101001010011 101000110001 011001011010 11001 1111011111 11011110101 1001001111101 11001001 10010100101 11111101010 01010001011101 1100010 11010100101 110110111110 001100101011 1011010 11110110100 100100100100 1101011100010 101101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

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