This is an analysis of To A Dead Lover by Louise Bogan.
The dark is thrown
Back from the brightness, like hair…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXba bcaaa deaXed bbafbfaXabbacb
- Stanza lengths: 4,5,6,14,
- Metre: 0101 1001011 110010 1101 1010 101101 111110 0101111010 101011011110 011011101 101101111 0110110 101001 10111 1011 1111010 1110 11100101 111101 110 101011 11001 11010110 1111010 1010010 11111110 01111 011010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
to
