This is an analysis of Night In The City by Ellis Parker Butler.
The sluggish clouds hang low upon the town,
And from yon lamp in chilled and sodden rays…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb adcdXccac
- Stanza lengths: 4,9,
- Metre: 0101110101 1011011101 01011010101 1101000101 0101011101 0101010101 1011010101 0101110101 0101011111 110011101001 1101010101 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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