This is an analysis of In Darkness by Amy Lowell.

Must all of worth be travailled for, and those
Life's brightest stars rise from a troubled sea…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXaabbabcbcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11010100111 1101100101 1011010100 10110101001 1111010111 1101000111 1101011100 1001010001 0100010111 1011011111 1101101101 0001111011 0101111111 11010101001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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