This is an analysis of For My Daughter by Weldon Kees.
Looking into my daughter’s eyes I read
Beneath the innocence of morning flesh…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXacdcdeecc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1000110111 0101000101 0110011111 1001110111 01110110001 0111010011 1101101111 1100011100 101010111 1111110001 01010001010 1001000101 1101010001 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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