This is an analysis of Harpo Marx by Robert Lowell.
Harpo Marx, your hands white-feathered the harp—
the only words you ever spoke were sound.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbaaXXcccXb
- Stanza lengths: 13,
- Metre: 1011111001 0101110101 010111011001 11011011010 0110101101 1111100111 01111110101 1111101111 10111011101 110100111110 111111101101 1101001100101 0101001010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
i, wheel
Anaphora
the