This is an analysis of A Sunset by Kenneth Slessor.
THE old Quarry, Sun, with bleeding scales,
Flaps up the gullies, wets their crystal pebbles,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXaaXbcbcb
- Stanza lengths: 11,
- Metre: 011010101 11010111010 100100110100 1000010110010 100111010011 11100 1110101 11010100110 1111010110101 10101011011110 01001111001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 11