This is an analysis of Sunset by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

I saw the day lean o'er the world's sharp edge
And peer into night's chasm, dark and damp;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a b b a c d dXc
  • Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Metre: 11011100111 1100110111 1001110101 1101111101 0101011101 1101110011 11001010001 10010001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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