This is an analysis of Pacemaker by William De Witt Snodgrass.

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'One Snodgrass, two Snodgrass, three Snodgrass, four . . .…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abac XcXc X dedb fXcc X XbccXfXffcfec
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,1,4,4,1,13,
  • Metre: 1 1111111111 111110111010 11111111011 110110010010 1111111111 01010011001 01110111 1101100001 1 1110100111 0111110101 1110111111 1110101101 01111011101 01010111111 110011101 110111101 1 1111110100 1101010110 1111111101 0111011011 0010010001110 0111111001 1011101110 110111111 11100011011 1111011110 100111101 10111001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 31

Repeated words/phrases

two, three, i, snodgrass, leff, my

Anaphora

the