This is an analysis of Despondency by Archibald Lampman.
Slow figures in some live remorseless frieze,
The approaching days escapeless and unguessed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabba acacac
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1100110101 0010110001100 0111100001 1111000100 1101110101 1011000111 01010100011 111010100 0111001111 1011011111 1011010101 1101011111 1101010001 1110010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14