This is an analysis of Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there] by William Hughes Mearns.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there…
Browse poems by William Hughes Mearns
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaBb bbccaXXaaBb
- Stanza lengths: 4,11,
- Metre: 1010101 11011101 11010101 11111101 11111111 01110111 11110101 11011111 1011011111101 1011011111011 11110101 01011101 11010101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, away, go
Anaphora
go
