This is an analysis of To ---- by Frances Anne Kemble.

When we first met, dark wintry skies were glooming,
And the wild winds sang requiem to the year;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabababa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11111101010 10111100001 11011101110 1111110101 11110101010 10110100101 11110100010 1111011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8