This is an analysis of For Jessica, My Daughter by Mark Strand.
Tonight I walked,
lost in my own meditation,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXcXdebbXd feegedhda fdaXgiaigeXicda aahfaaffXhd
- Stanza lengths: 11,9,15,11,
- Metre: 0111 10111010 1101 100101 11110111 10011101 111001001 10010111 11111 00110 0001101 1000011100 01011 11110011001 10111 1010100 111011 10001 011001 1101 11011010 10011 10101011 101001 10001 0110010 101110 01010 10111101 1001001 11101001 11101 11111001001 010011 101 101 00100 01001 01111101010 101001 1111111101 0101110 01010 101110 001 11101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 46
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