This is an analysis of A Summer Night by Matthew Arnold.
In the deserted, moon-blanched street,
How lonely rings the echo of my feet!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdefed aabgbhbgcicihib caahchacccc jcXjkikaiaeaeX hahakkcfXddbblliXiiieei bb bbbaXkkbbbbXccfckk
- Stanza lengths: 10,15,11,14,23,2,18,
- Metre: 000101101 1101010011 11011111 101110001 01010111 010101001 0111010101 0001010100 11010101 101101001 101101 010101 00111011001 1011000111 110111 00110101 110001 100111 1001001 011011 0111010101 111111 1011010011 1011010111 101111 10111101 111101101 11010001 110101001 1101000101 1101011 10110101 11011001011 11111001 1001111110 11010111 1110010101 100111 01110111100 1101100101 1001011101 111101 1100110101 0110111 101111 1101011011 111101 01010111111 10110100 1010110110 10101 01110101 101100101 10110010001 1001 11111101 010111 1111000100 01111111000 110111 0100111001 1101011101 010101 100101 1011010111 01011101 100101 1101111111 11011101001 110101 01111101001 1011011111 1111011111 01111101 11111101 10110011101 1001 11011110111 0101111111 1101011000 1111010011 1111110111 1011111101 0101001101 1111011101 1101011101 0101110111 1101010100 1110110100 1000011111 110101 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 92
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, their, to, how
Anaphora
and, still, how