This is an analysis of Ravens Hiding in a Shoe by Robert Bly.

There is something men and women living in houses
Don't understand. The old alchemists standing…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXa bXa Xaa Xaa XXa Xba
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Metre: 1010111010010 11010110010 11110100101 10111011101 0111111010 1111110101 110110110100 11111110101001 1101001010101 10011011101 01110100111 1110010101 0101100101 10111010101 1101001010101 1011011011 1011011011 1101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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