This is an analysis of The House Of Change by Francis Joseph Sherman.

Was it last Autumn only, when I stood
At the field’s edge, and watched the red glow creep…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaa bbacd ecde
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,4,
  • Metre: 1011010111 1011110111 0101110111 0101110101 0101010101 1101111001 1101001101 0111010100 11010110110 0101010011 000110111101 11110101010 10111100001 1110000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 16