This is an analysis of Robinson At Home by Weldon Kees.

Curtains drawn back, the door ajar.
All winter long, it seemed, a darkening…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcd eXbe fXed gbag XfXf ffXcXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,7,
  • Metre: 10110101 1101010100 01110111010001 0101100110100 11010100 1111000111 101100001 11010101110001 110111010101 111001001 1101010111 100101000 0100010101010 0110110100 1101001011101 110101010100 111101010001 0111010101 01000101011 010101010101 11110001110111 1010001111101 010111 1101 00100111110 100111010101 1011010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 32

Anaphora

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