This is an analysis of Song by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

Coldly the night-wind shivers on the hill-top,
Cold crawls the pale-faced fog from off the sea;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa aaXa baba
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10011101011 1101110101 11011101010 1111110101 111111010011 1111010101 11010101011 1111110111 11011101010 01001110101 101101101110 11111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14