This is an analysis of Ebony Life by Robert Desnos.
A frightening stillness will mark that day
And the shadow of streetlights and fire-alarms will exhaust the light…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacdbaeecXebccedXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 0100100111 10110101100100101 11010010100010 010101 0110101001011010 10101111001010110010 10101110 11011101 101010101 10111010101 11100101 001111011 00110011011110101 1010 1100101110010 001011011001101 101011 0101011010110010 0101111111111110 10110010111 1011000110101001 1101111011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
and, it, day
Anaphora
the, we, it, that
