This is an analysis of Egrets by Judith Wright.

Once as I travelled through a quiet evening,
I saw a pool, jet-black and mirror-still.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababaa ababXa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 11110101010 1101111101 01010100110 1101110101 11011101010 1010001010 10011101010 1101111101 11110011010 1101011111 01110111100 11011101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12