This is an analysis of Back And Side Go Bare by William Stevenson.
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABCB dbebabXBABCB dfbfgbXBABCB ceXeXbdXABCB egXghXhbABCB
- Stanza lengths: 4,12,12,12,12,
- Metre: 1111111 111111 1101110101 1000111 11011101 110010 11111111 011101 11111111 111001 11111101 0100111 1111111 111111 1101110101 1000111 111110101 10110010 01011111 1111010 11111111 111011 11111101 0100111 1111111 111111 1101110101 1000111 11111101 1010101 11111111 011101 11110101 1010101 110001111 001001110 1111111 111111 1101110101 1000111 110111111 10101011 11110101 011110 111111101 11010010 110100111 1010111 1111111 111111 1101110101 1000111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
go, i
Anaphora
i
