This is an analysis of What The Spider Heard by Weldon Kees.
Will there be time for eggnogs and eclogues
In the place where we’re going?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XAB bcdb eAb bcdb eaBXbcddb
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,3,4,9,
- Metre: 01011111100 0011010 1010001 111101 1111010 1111010 111000101 011111101101 0011010 1010001 0010101 10101010 010101010 01101001 11111111010111 1011010 1010001 1010101 10101010 10101010 10101010 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
there, said, what, question
Anaphora
i, what
Epiphora
fly
