This is an analysis of Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River by Robert Bly.

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I am driving; it is dusk; Minnesota.…

Browse poems by Robert Bly

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcXb XXdaadc XXdXcdd
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
  • Metre: 1 11100011010 01011001101 011110111 1111001110111 00111110 0110010101 1 011001 101011001 101010001 010110010 110101 1010101010 1 10001100011 110100011 011010111101 0101111101 111010011100 01101101001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

on

Anaphora

i, the

Anadiplosis

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