This is an analysis of A Casualty by Robert William Service.
That boy I took in the car last night,
With the body that awfully sagged away,…
Browse poems by Robert William Service
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababb bcbc XdedXX ccccX fcfcX bebbXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,6,5,5,6,
- Metre: 111100111 0010110101 10111010111 1011101111 11111101101 1010110101 10101111011 10010101 111011111 1101011010 1110101001 1111100111 11101001001 10111111110 11101001111010 10011101101 11101101 111010111 11100111101 10101111110 100101111101 1111010111 11101011001 1110110101 111011011110 11100111111 11111001001 1011111011 101010111 1101101100 1111011110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, so, he
Anaphora
and
Anadiplosis
glad
