This is an analysis of Paradiso by Kenneth Koch.

There is no way not to be excited
When what you have been disillusioned by raises its head…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdcXeedfbbafagbXeXg
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 1011100010 11110101011001 0011101010101 10111100 111111011001 11011010100100 1111001101 101011 011110110001 01011110111110100 1 1001001010 11010010010 1010001011011101 110111101111101 010 11111111101111 1011100110010 0101111000111101000 01001010101010 101101011100111 1010111101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

to, you

Anaphora

and