This is an analysis of Epilogue by Robert Lowell.
Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme--
why are they no help to me now…
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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