This is an analysis of At Midnight by Sir Lewis Morris.
THEY were two poor young girls, little older than children,
Who passed through the midnight streets of the city…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc dec fcc gfc afc egc dXc fXcXgbc
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Metre: 1011111010110 11101110010 10 1011010011010 111111111010 10 101100111010 111010110111 10 11111111010 1011011011110 10 10110010110 1011010011010 10 010100100110 011010010010 10 01111010010 010010011010 10 1110010100010 1010110010110 10 011011011010 011010011010 10
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
Anaphora
singing, of, a
Anadiplosis
singing
