This is an analysis of A Night-Piece By Millet by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking
Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaB bXbXabaB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,8,
  • Metre: 1111111010 101110111 10011101010 111 101110101 10111111000 101111111 1110101010 1111100100 1111101010 111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

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