This is an analysis of Epilogue by Robert Lowell.

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme--
why are they no help to me now…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXXdXddedXbXXXXcXea
  • Stanza lengths: 23,
  • Metre: 1110111 11111011 1101 10010101 11010111 110100101 010001010 10110111 00111011 1011 1010101 1001 110111 1100 1111110 110101000 10100101010 101010101 00110010 111101 11101 11000101 0101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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