This is an analysis of From The Frontier Of Writing by Seamus Heaney.
The tightness and the nilness round that space
when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba XbX cXc bXb dXd ece fXf cdX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 0101010111 10110010101 01110111101 0111011101 1010110001 11011111010 11010101010 0101010111 01010111010 0101000101 1111110001 1010110100 11110001010 10100101111 01000111010 1001110101 010010101 1001011101 1100110111 10110010101 1011000111 11010100101 01010101010 11110001010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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