This is an analysis of A Retrospect Of Humidity by Les Murray.
All the air conditioners now slacken
their hummed carrier wave. Once again…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcadecfX aXghibgXXai bahbhdaehah aaXhiafaaX Xa
- Stanza lengths: 10,11,11,10,2,
- Metre: 1010100110 1101001101 111110010 00111100011 01011010110 110101010 0111111101 1101100010 0110010010 01100110101 100110000100 01011110110 01101110110 10110100010 0010110110 01010110110 1001111011 1101110110 101011101 0010100010 101110010 011001000101 0110111010 1010101010 10101100101 010101101 1011100100 01010011 1101010011 10101011 10101010111 1111010010 1010110010 1011010001 1010100100 10101101 10001101010 01001010101 111110110 1110100010 1010110010 1011011100 0100010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 44
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