This is an analysis of King Street by Arthur Henry Adams.

A morn, a sallow lamp-lit morn,
A dawn that never breaks to day!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababacac cdcdXcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 01010111 01110101 11010101 01111111 001011001 11010101 111000101 10010101 01110101 01011101 10010111 01011101 11010101 11110101 01010111 11011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

a, and