This is an analysis of Horses At Midnight Without A Moon by Jack Gilbert.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods.
Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXcXaXdXXddXadbb
  • Stanza lengths: 19,
  • Metre: 111010011 1110001001 1110011011 1010110110100 0101001111 111110110 1110101 010100101 1101100011 110000010 1101011001 11011110 11010 11001101100 101010 1100110 1101001010 101110010 1101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

in

Anaphora

our, but