This is an analysis of Oh, Night! by Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff.

Oh night, you canopy of embroidered gold!
Oh moon, you lamp of silver!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abac Xcac aabXXX dbXXXd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,6,
  • Metre: 11110000101 1111010 1110101 111111 111100 010101 101101010 00101001 11101 010101 10111010 10101 111010101 010101 11011010 000100010 0110101 101101 01011010
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

you

Anaphora

oh