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…
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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