This is an analysis of Last Letter To His Wife by Rene Daumal.
I am dead because I lack desire,
I lack desire because I think I possess.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXabXbXa
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1110111010 110100111101 1110101111101 010011111110 10111101101010 10010101111110 10111101010001 0010000110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
i, because, you, to, that, nothing
Anaphora
i
