This is an analysis of A Song Of Eternity In Time by Sidney Lanier.

Once, at night, in the manor wood
My Love and I long silent stood,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbbc dddceeeX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11100101 11111101 01110101 01011100100 11010111 11110101 11011101 11111111110 01110101 11011101 11010101 01011101110 101001110101 11111111 10010101 110101000100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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