This is an analysis of The Meeting by Radclyffe Hall.

To meet almost as strangers, who have been
Such lovers in the past ! no glad delight…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddcbb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111110110 1100011101 0111010111 1101110011 0100101111 1101111001 1111011111 0101011111 1110010101 1111011011 0111011101 0111111001 1111011101 1101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14