This is an analysis of Winter Dusk by Walter de la Mare.

Dark frost was in the air without,
The dusk was still with cold and gloom,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbb Xcdc edfd Xgfg haea ffhf figi
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11100101 01110111 111100111 110101 10101010 110100101 11011111 1111011 01011101 10110101 01010111 111101 0101100101 11110101 0101011 011101 11011101 01110101 10110101 001101 11010101 11000101 11111101 110111 11010111 01010111 01111111 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Anaphora

still, no