This is an analysis of On The Hill Top by Radclyffe Hall.

What is the end of all sweet things,
Of these dawns and twilights and golden springs ?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaab ccccb
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,
  • Metre: 10010111 01111011001 0011110111 0011110111 111011 11101111 1101101001 1101011001 010101111 0100111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

of, and, that

Anaphora

of