This is an analysis of Love 20¢ The First Quarter Mile by Kenneth Fearing.
All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and made a few
pronouncements a bit too sweeping, perhaps, and possibly forgotten…
Browse poems by Kenneth Fearing
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXe afgfgbhg hda dacg dXdde
- Stanza lengths: 7,8,3,4,5,
- Metre: 1111110110111101 01001110011100010 01010111 111100010111110 110011001011 11 100111 11100100101011101 1000010101 11001110010101001001 1001111011101101101 10111110100101 1100111110010011 010011001101101100101 1110011111101 01101111101 1011110100110011 101101010110011101011101 01011101111 1100111110101110111 101011101111101011 11011100101110111 11101010100111010 1001010101101110100 1001011101 11010101011011011 01101010010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, for, being, all
Anaphora
i, and
