This is an analysis of The End by Mark Strand.
Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end,
Watching the pier as the ship sails away, or what it will seem like…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cXaX XcXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1100111111101 1001101101110011 11110111001101 1111111001111011 10111010110101 1011100110111001 110011100111101001 10100110110101 011101011010010 110010011101101001 11001110101111111 101101100101101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
what, when, and
Anaphora
when