This is an analysis of The Conversation In The Drawing Room by Weldon Kees.
—That spot of blood on the drawing room wall,
No larger than a thumbnail when I looked a moment ago,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc daedf agd dhXid giX bXbhg dja djbeediXcXef
- Stanza lengths: 3,5,3,5,3,5,3,12,
- Metre: 1101101011 110101111101001 0101010011010 100101100011 010110000101 01000110101 0100101001 11100010100011001 111100010 1010010111001 111101010010100 110100011011 01111001110100 101010100011001 11110100110101 01000110001001 10110100111 1110010011 111010010110100 111111011001001 111001011001000 101010111100100101011 1011010101000101 1111101110011 10100011011 1101010101 11110001 11010011011111 101001010111010 110010101110001 00101111011101 10110010010010 10010100100100 1010010101001 00010110010100100 0111010101100110 1111111010011010101 000100101101101101 1010100101111011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
s, i, of
Anaphora
the, like
Anadiplosis
wet
