This is an analysis of Statement With Rhymes by Weldon Kees.

Plurality is all. I walk among the restaurants,
the theatres, the grocery stores; I ride the cars…

Browse poems by Weldon Kees

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXbXXbaXcXbbc daeed
  • Stanza lengths: 17,5,
  • Metre: 01000111010101 0100010011101 1101010111000 1010100101001 1001010111 100110010111 0100010101 010101010101011 1001011000 10010010001 0101010101 01111101 01011010100001 010001010101 01110111011101 11011101000101 01010101010111010010101 01000111011101 1111111100111 01011011011010101 0011111101111 01110101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

of, in

Anaphora

the, in