This is an analysis of A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees.

Unmanageable as history: these
Followers of Tammuz to the land…

Browse poems by Weldon Kees

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcXa XcaXaXd dXXXXca
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
  • Metre: 0100011001 100010001 11010111 1111001111101 1101011111 1001010101001 110111010011 11110110110 10101011111 01110100110101 110110100011100 01110100010 100101001000 01000101110101 11011111101 11010101010110 1110100111101001 11110001011 011110111 0101010001010101 11010111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

of