This is an analysis of Oft, In The Stilly Night by Thomas Moore.
Oft, in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaBccddddAbAB efefddggggABAB
- Stanza lengths: 14,14,
- Metre: 100101 1101111 1100101 0101011 0101 0100 0101110 0111 1111 0101110 100101 1101111 1100101 0101011 110101 0111010 110111 1101010 1111 1101 1101010 1111 1101 1111010 100101 1101111 1100101 0101011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 28
Anaphora
the, whose