This is an analysis of The Doctor Will Return by Weldon Kees.
The surgical mask, the rubber teat
Are singed, give off an evil smell.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacb dedce fafca eXecb
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 010010101 11111101 11011111 110111 01110101 0101010101 11011101 1101110101 0101010101 01110101 11110011001 1101010101 11110011 1101010101 01110101 1110111110011 11010101 1001110101 1111110001 11011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
i, in
Anaphora
i