This is an analysis of On The Lighthouse At Antibes by Mathilde Blind.

A stormy light of sunset glows and glares
Between two banks of cloud, and o'er the brine…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba cdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0101011111 01110111001 1111010101 0110110001 1001011111 111111010 0101011101 110101101 0101110101 1111110001 11110010101 1100110111 1111001101 111110111001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14