This is an analysis of Covering Two Years by Weldon Kees.

This nothingness that feeds upon itself:
Pencils that turn to water in the hand,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaX XbaaXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,7,
  • Metre: 0100110101 1011010001 1001010001 11000111 1101010101 10001111101 10100110 11011001110101 011011000101 11000100101101 1111100111010 1101000101 101100010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

in, that, to

Anaphora

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