This is an analysis of After A Long Insomniac Night by Edward Hirsch.
I walked down to the sea in the early morning
after a long insomniac night.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cddb beae XecXe Xdd X
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,4,5,3,1,
- Metre: 111001001010 100101011 11100101101 11101 1101011 11010011 110010100100 11011 110101110 00110101 11101011 101010 101 1101010110 110010110101 1110010 0111111 1111010010001 1110000000101001110110100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 23
