This is an analysis of The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees.
It must have been in March the rug wore through.
Now the day passes and I stare…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabccXbdcabdXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0110010111 10110111 1111110101 1010101110001 101000100110001 101111 0011101 0111000101 01010101000111 0100110101 010111010101 1101110110010 1010111 11111000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
at, and
