This is an analysis of Leave-Taking by Louise Bogan.
I do not know where either of us can turn
Just at first, waking from the sleep of each other.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcaXadde ffXfXbXec
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,
- Metre: 11111100111 111100010110 11111111 010110110001 1101100100010 11110001 1110101111 11011 11010011 11111001 01101 101100101 0101001 110001 101100110010010 111011000 1111010011 1111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
of, to
Anaphora
that