This is an analysis of Three In A Shade. by Robert Crawford.

Here we sit, and blind Desire
Plays his spinet in the shade.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgXga
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 11111010 1010001 10011010 1001101 10101001 1011111 1010101 0010101 0001111 0111101 1010101 1111101 1111101 0010111 0011101 1010110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16