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.…
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