This is an analysis of Words For Departure by Louise Bogan.
Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten.
When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXd efbecf eecg XXbc Xd egh XXf iic cXhbXaf
- Stanza lengths: 5,6,4,4,2,3,3,3,7,
- Metre: 10101010010 1101100101011010 01010101001 11011010100 101011 10101010101 111101010010 01011010 110101001010010 1101110011 11101010010 111 1011010 10111001 11111010 1 110101 101011001 1011001101 1011011 11011110 1001 1011010 0110110110 1 1110010 1010010 00101101 101001 1010101 11010100 00110111 01101111 101010 11010110110 11010100011010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, be
Anaphora
be
Anadiplosis
you
