This is an analysis of In War-Time: A Prayer Of The Understanding by Sydney Thompson Dobell.
Lo, this is night. Hast thou, oh sun, refused
Thy countenance, or is thy golden arm…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdbecaf aagchijkgXljkkfXlcmanaXgllgcafXhfmbonafakadncdalahoiaXacbcabgkeaaXajXfbfbcc
- Stanza lengths: 9,75,
- Metre: 1001111101 1100101101 10101101010 1111111011 0111011011 1010110100 1101111101 0100111111 0001011001 1101010001 1111010111 0111110101 01001010101 1101010001 1101011111 01110101001 01111001101 11110100101 1111110110 1101110001 10000100010 1101010011 0101010011 0111110111 10001010101 1110000111 1001000101 110101010110 1111111111 1101010001 0101010101 01010111100 01011001010 01010011001 1001111111 1001111101 1101010101 1101011001 1101010101 0100100011 11011110111 1011010111 10110 11011 11011100101 0100110101 1011110101 11001010001 0101010111 11010011111 10111011111 1011010101 0101010111 0101110101 101001101 1101100101 11001100011 1001010001 01110111001 1101010111 0100011101010 0100110101 1100110111 0101100111 100011110110 0111111101 1100011001 1001110001 1011110001 1111010011 1111111111 1111011100 0111110101 1101011111 0101101101 1001010101 11010111010 1000010010 0100110101 1111001101 1101010101 1100111101 0100010001 1001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 85
Repeated words/phrases
thou, thy, and, round, all, one, self, we, not, in
Anaphora
and, centre, no
Epiphora
star
