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;…

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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