This is an analysis of Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles by Alan Seeger.

Be my companion under cool arcades
That frame some drowsy street and dazzling square…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacaaXdeed
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101010101 11110111001 01110111101 1101001101 1110110101 0111111101 1101101101 1111010101 1001011101 1001010001 11010011101 11110010111 11001100001 1101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14