This is an analysis of Do The Dead Know What Time It Is? by Kenneth Patchen.
The old guy put down his beer.
Son, he said,…
Browse poems by Kenneth Patchen
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabXcadefagXfagdhabdcecHdh XH
- Stanza lengths: 26,2,
- Metre: 0111101 111 1011100010110 1111101001 1111001110 01011111101 10111110101 10111110011 11100110100110 1001 111000111101 110 11101010010 111110011 111111 1101 11110111101 110100111 101010 011 1110110 1101101101001 111101101110 111101 11110110111 11111101 111101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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