This is an analysis of At Twilight by Guy Wetmore Carryl.

Was it so long? It seems so brief a while
Since this still hour between the day and dark…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeaeefef dgdgeheh ididjfjf Xkikhdhd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1011011101 10110010111 1101010101 110101 0111010101 1001111101 1101011001 111111 0101010101 0101010101 1101110111 010101 1101011101 1101011111 1111011111 110101 1110011111 1101010001 1101110101 010011 01010111001 1101010001 0100011101 110110 1011010111 1100010001 0111110101 111101 1110010101 0101010001 1110010111 111101 11011001010 1100011101 0101010101 011111 0101110110 0101111111 1111010111 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

to, us

Anaphora

the