This is an analysis of "The Dreadful Has Already Happened&Quot; by Mark Strand.
The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly.
They moisten their lips with their tongues. I can feel…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXb cXXc aXXb Xdee XXeX deXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 010011010101000 11011011111 0101111010001 10101010001 01101011010 110010111001 1100100101110 011011111 0111001010011 1001101010110 1111011010 111000001 01101010 1001011011 101101011101 0110011001 0100111101011 1110110101110 100110101001 010111111 111100101 10001011101010 0100101101001011 110110101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
i, his
Anaphora
my, i, the