This is an analysis of What Of The Night? by John Le Gay Brereton.

The doom is imminent of unholy hate.
Hail to the light that glimmers where the leaves…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba abaXab
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 01010000101 1001110101 11011010101 0111110001 11110101011 110100111001 0101010101 0111011100 11010010111 0101010111 01110111011 0101010110 1111011101 1101000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the