This is an analysis of Sonnet Viii by Alan Seeger.
Oft as by chance, a little while apart
The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdddccc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 01010101001 110100100101 1101010101 11110111101 1111011101 1111010101 10110111100 1111010101 0111010101 01000111101 1011110111 1111010101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, in
Anaphora
the
