This is an analysis of Eighteen Hundred And Sixty-Four by Henry Kendall.
I HEAR no footfall beating through the dark,
A lonely gust is loitering at the pane;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh ijiX jcjc bjbj fcfc ikik lklk ifif ididXdhdh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1111110101 01010100101 1011011101 0101110101 1110111101 0101010111 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 1111110101 1101100101 01101101 0111010101 1101011111 1110110101 1111110101 1101010111 0001110111 1101011111 0111010100 1111011101 0101110111 1111010101 1111000101 1101011101 0101001101 0101110101 0111010101 1101011101 0101011101 1111000101 1111000100 1111001101 1101111111 1111010101 11011111111 1111110101 1111011001 1111010101 01010110101 1101000111 1101010111 1010010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101011101 11110100101 0101110101 1101000111 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, i
Anaphora
and, we, i
