This is an analysis of Written After Spending A Day At West Point by Frances Anne Kemble.
Were they but dreams? Upon the darkening world
Evening comes down, the wings of fire are furled,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeefXggbbffhhfXeeaahhbbiijjiihhh
- Stanza lengths: 39,
- Metre: 01110101001 101101010110 1101100101 0111010111 1001010101 11010110101 0111110101 11010111101 1101001101 0101010101 1101100101 1011000101 1101110111 10110010111 1011011101 1011010101 0101010101 1111110111 1111101111 1001011101 0101010101 0101010101 01010111001 11110111001 01110011111 01110100101 11000101001 0111010111 0011011101 1111100101 1101011101 1111110101 1001010101 0100010001 01110010001 0011000101 0101111101 010011100111 0111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
and, where, gone, of
Anaphora
and, the
