This is an analysis of An August Night by Radclyffe Hall.
Hot with the ardour of the sun,
Whose burning lips had slain the noon,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbccddeeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10010001 11011101 01010001 1111010100 01001101 11110001 11110001 11011101 11010111 01000101 01110101 10010101 11011101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
