This is an analysis of A Saint's Hours by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn.
In the still cold before the sun
(Her Matins) Her brothers and her sisters small…
Browse poems by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb cac aaa aba bdbXdcc
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Metre: 00110101 01001010101 11111111 11010101 110010111 11010101 11110100 101011101 01000101 110111101 101110101 11010101 11110101 1011011101 01011111 110100101 10100101001 10111101 001101101 100111100101 11010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
and, her
