This is an analysis of Before Dawn by Amy Lowell.
Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate,
By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabacbca
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011000111 1111110111 1101010011 1101011111 1101010101 0101011111 0101010101 1100110001 11100111100 1100001101 1111110111 11010011001 1111010111 1001011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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