This is an analysis of The Vigil-At-Arms by Louise Imogen Guiney.
Keep holy watch with silence, prayer, and fasting
Till morning break, and all the bugles play;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 11010101110 1101110101 10010101010 1101011111 1001110111 1001110001 10011111110 1101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8