This is an analysis of Death Wishes by Lady Jane Wilde.

Oh! might I pass as the evening ray
Melts in the deep’ning twilight away;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbccddeeffgghhcccciieeXX
  • Stanza lengths: 28,
  • Metre: 111110101 100101101 101101111 0101100100 111110101 1100100101 1101100101 100111001 111110101 100100101 110011101 11100000101 1111101010 1101001010 1101000101 10111000101 11111101 110010111 110101111 11100100101 111101011 11001001001 1101010010 101101101010 111111110010 1111011110 10110110100 1011011011010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

nor

Anaphora

nor