This is an analysis of The Hours Of Illness by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
How slow creeps time! I hear the midnight chime,
And now late revellers prepare for sleep;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccaXadddefgf hfhfadedhfhXaidihgXg
- Stanza lengths: 16,20,
- Metre: 1111110111 1111000111 0111100101 1111010111 0101010101 1101110111 1111110101 1101010101 1101100101 0111010111 1101011001 1101010101 1101111111 0101010101 1111010111 11111101001 1101111111 0101010101 11010100101 1100110101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010011 1111111101 1101110111 1101010101 1101111101 10110001010 0111010111 1101010111 0101010101 0111010101 0111010101 1001111111 0111010101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
from, so
Anaphora
whose, where
