This is an analysis of Peace by Patrick Kavanagh.

And sometimes I am sorry when the grass
Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows…

Browse poems by Patrick Kavanagh

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdXcd efefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 9,6,
  • Metre: 1011110101 010100101010 101010101011 11110101010 11110111010 0101010111 01111100 110110 0101111101 0101010101 01110101110 111111110101 1110100101010 1011110111 0101011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 15

Anaphora

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