This is an analysis of Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night by William Ernest Henley.

Between the dusk of a summer night
And the dawn of a summer day,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccccbcbcccc
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 010100101 10100101 1110110101 1110111 110010101 0010111 1100101011 10101101 10110101 0111001 1110101011 0101111 1011110111 10100111 0110101011 10101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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