This is an analysis of To One Dead 1 by Maxwell Bodenheim.

Shaking nights, noons tame and dust-quiet, and wind-broken days
Were hands modelling your face.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aaa
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,
  • Metre: 10111111011101 0110011 110111111 111101 1010101101 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

and

Epiphora

you