This is an analysis of Love In A Mist by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided,
Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaB babXabaB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,8,
  • Metre: 11001101101010 110011100101 11001101111010 11001 1100110101111 0111001010010 10110000110111 11011101101010 11001000101011 11110101101010 11001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

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