This is an analysis of Night Coming Out Of A Garden by Lord Alfred Douglas.

Through the still air of night
Suddenly comes, alone and shrill,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaaeafafghghacaX
  • Stanza lengths: 25,
  • Metre: 101101 10010111 1011100101 010101 00111101001 11101010 1110110101 110111010 11001011 101001001 1001010001 1001101001 111001001 10011001 00110101 100101101 101001101 0100101 10101101 00100111 1010111 11001101 0100101 101001001 1101001011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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