This is an analysis of Bogland by Seamus Heaney.

for T. P. Flanagan
We have no prairies…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcXa XXXa aXde fbgf gabe hdcb deXh
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 111100 11110 01011110 10101010 100010 01000101 00110110 011110 0101001 1100100 001101 1001101 10101101 10110 110100 10101011 010101110 101100101 10011010 11000 110111 1001011 011111 1101110 10110 1001011 11101 01001001010 01100100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the