This is an analysis of At Last by James Whitcomb Riley.
A dark, tempestuous night; the stars shut in
With shrouds of fog; an inky, jet-black blot…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdcXX aeaeXX ababcc fgfgdd XXbXXX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 01110010110 0101110111 0100110110 11010110101 01110010101 1011010101 0111110001 1101010101 1111011101 0101110101 0111011101 1011010111 0101011101 11001100111 0101111101 1111010101 1101110101 1110011101 1101010101 1001010001 1111101101 110010011 1101000111 1011000101 0111000111 0101011001 0111011111 0111011111 1101111001 0101011101 1111011101 1101011101 1101010101 1101111010 1101011111 0100011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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