This is an analysis of At Sunset by Madison Julius Cawein.

Into the sunset's turquoise marge
The moon dips, like a pearly barge…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabXC ddbbC bbeeC ffggC
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 00010101 01110101 01011101 01001000 1001101 00010111 01111101 01010111 11111001 1001101 01011101 011111001 01111101 01111101 1001101 11011111 01011101 01011101 00110011 1001101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

the, beyond