This is an analysis of La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees.

Last summer, in the blue heat,
Over the beach, in the burning air,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXX bXbaX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,5,
  • Metre: 1100011 100100101 0101011101 0111000111 1111010111 100101011 1111101 01101101110 1001010 1001111 100111111 10011101 11010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 13