This is an analysis of A Winter Night by John Hay.
The winter wind is raving fierce and shrill
And chides with angry moan the frosty skies,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbbcaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101010111 1101010101 0111010101 1101010111 1110011111 1001111101 11010100100 1011010101 1101010111 01011101010 10010010111 1001011101 0101111101 1101010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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