This is an analysis of Sedate And Archaic, A Twilight-Frilled Haze by Maxwell Bodenheim.

Sedate and archaic, a twilight-frilled haze
Walks over the meadows like rolled-out centuries…

Browse poems by Maxwell Bodenheim

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXcbcXcXXabXab
  • Stanza lengths: 17,
  • Metre: 011010011101 110011111100 10001010 111110 110010010 1100010 1110001100100 11001010011 11011110 010101 1100110100 01011001 1111010 10000010101 011100101 11001011101 1010110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

trees

Anaphora

trees