This is an analysis of Night And Day by Sidney Lanier.
The innocent, sweet Day is dead.
Dark Night hath slain her in her bed.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaab aaab aaab ccXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01001101 11110001 1111101101 110111 01011101 010101101 11000011 111111 10011101 01011101 01011111 111111 110001001 01011101 1101001000 111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16