This is an analysis of After Sunset by Hall Caine.

VOCAL yet voiceless, lingering, lambent, white
With the wide wings of evening on the fell,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaacca ddeaea
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 10110100101 0011010101 01010010101 0101100101 1101100101 011011101101 0100010101 1101010101 0001011111 100101101001 01001011001 01010010111 10011100111 11101111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14