This is an analysis of Address To The Sunset by Robert Nichols.

Exquisite stillness! What serenities
Of earth and air! How bright atop the wall…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaabXXXcbcbXXb
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 1001011000 0111110101 0100101010100 1111011100 1101011100 1100101110 1 1111110111 11011101000 11010101000 01110101001 11010100101 11001110001 1101111101 1111110101 1111100100 1011110101 0011110001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

how, and, he, where

Anaphora

how