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

Though all the light were lifted from the land,
And a great darkness lay upon the sea;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXb cbcad adee
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,4,
  • Metre: 1101010001 1011010101 1101111101 1111110100 1001011110 00110110101 1111101111 11011011101 1111111111 10110010101 1111110101 1111011111 11011010001 1101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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