This is an analysis of The Birthnight by Walter de la Mare.
Dearest, it was a night
That in its darkness rocked Orion's stars;…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccdede
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 100101 1001010101 01011101 0101110101 1111010101 0101001011 111101 1111001 1011011101 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
