This is an analysis of Despair by Jean Blewett.
We catch a glimpse of it, gaunt and gray,
When the golden sunbeams are all abroad;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc ededXbaba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
- Metre: 110100111 1010101101 1100101101 011100101 1101001010 0111001101 0111101001 11011011011 0111100101 1000100101 111011111 110100101 0010111111 110100111 11111111 10100111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
