This is an analysis of Problems Of A Journalist by Weldon Kees.

“I want to get away somewhere and re-read Proust,”
Said an editor of Fortune to a man on Time.…

Browse poems by Weldon Kees

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AXXbbbacb AXbcX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,5,
  • Metre: 110101111111 1110001000111 101011101010101 1110010111 11010101001 111101010100 1110110101010101 110101011101 01111011100 110101111111 1110001100111 1001011000100 1111010101 01010011011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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