This is an analysis of Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand.

In a field
I am the absence…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abacbXd XXcece cdXX
  • Stanza lengths: 7,6,4,
  • Metre: 001 11010 01 00 1101 01011 111010 111 1101 111 0110 01010 11100 11110 110 11 0111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

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