This is an analysis of A Hole In The Floor by Richard Wilbur.
for Rene Magritte
The carpenter's made a hole…
Browse poems by Richard Wilbur
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abXbaX cXcdeX ebdfgf hgbfid eigaXc gihjfj X
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,
- Metre: 10110 0100101 001011010 1010001 11010010 11011010 110101 0111110 101101 110010010 00110111 111001010 01001010 1011010 10110010 0111010 011101 100110 1010101 010101 1001010 10101110 1010101 101101 100001001 11111110 11011010 111001 010101 1111110 10110110 11101010 110001 10101011 110101 01001011 1011001 0101101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 39
