This is an analysis of The Lights Of London by Louise Imogen Guiney.

The evenfall, so slow on hills, hath shot
Far down into the valley's cold extreme,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba accaca
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0100111111 1100010101 0101111111 1101010111 0111001101 1101011001 01010100101 1011010101 0101011101 1111010101 1011010111 1101011101 101010101101 0111010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

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