This is an analysis of Night On Our Lives by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Night on our lives, ah me, how surely has it fallen!
Be they who can deceived. I dare not look before.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcdbdcXdXad
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111111101010 011101111101 1100111101110 110101110101 1001110111110 111101110011 11110011101110 110101010011 01110001011010 1101011100111 1001001011101 1100010011110 101101011101 011111011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

how, it, so