This is an analysis of At Dusk by Henry Kendall.
AT DUSK, like flowers that shun the day,
Shy thoughts from dim recesses break,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh icic dede jiji kXkc leleXgaga
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 111101101 11011001 11111111 1111 11011111 01101111 11010001 0111 01010111 11010101 11110111 1111 110111101 01011101 11111111 1111 01011100 11010101 11011101 1111 11110111 01110101 11011101 1111 01011111 01111101 11011101 0111 11111111 01011100 11110101 0101 11110111 11011101 01000101 1101 11110101 01010101 01110111 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
my, and, to
Anaphora
to
