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;…
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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