This is an analysis of A Twilight Song by Alfred Austin.
Why, rapturous bird, though shades of night
Muffle the leaves and swathe the lawn,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dadaee cXcXaa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 110011101 10011101 10110111 11111111 10101111 11011101 101101010 01010111 1101001110 01010111 110110101 01011011 11110111 111100101 010100111 01001101 11001101 10011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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