This is an analysis of Chokecherries by Peter Klappert.

Thirty feet from my windows,
an old kennel-wire fence…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXacXdec aafXgaaaadXhX XgdiXibg gXehaXXecbXe fXbeaXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,13,8,12,8,
  • Metre: 1010110 1110101 1011001010 10101110 1010010 0001101010 1010110 110110 110 10101 101011001 1011111 1101000 100011 1001001 1111001 1010011 11011001 110110 110110 11100 0101010110 0101000 1010101 1011110 01001011 010001010 111011 010101 1111101 10101 101101 001010 1101101 110110 101011001 11110110 1111110 1101110 1111010 1101010 01101010 0 110011 11111 1101100 100010100 110101010 010110 01100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 50

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

each, and