This is an analysis of The Ruin by Walter de la Mare.
When the last colours of the day
Have from their burning ebbed away,…
Browse poems by Walter de la Mare
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccbX
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 10110001 101101001 01110111 01010101 1100100101 1010101 100111011 100100110 10110011 10110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
