This is an analysis of Stop All The Clocks, Cut Off The Telephone by Wystan Hugh Auden.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeffXaacc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
- Metre: 1101110101 010101000101 10001010101 1101010101 110001010101 100101010101 111101100101 101001011101 1111111111 110111111 111111111 111111110111 0111101111001 1101101001 10101011101 110111010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
my
Anaphora
my
