Analysis of An Evening
William Allingham 1824 (Ballyshannon) – 1889 (Hampstead)
A sunset's mounded cloud;
A diamond evening-star;
Sad blue hills afar;
Love in his shroud.
Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a summer day;
Sweet Love dead.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0111 010101 11101 1011 100111 100111 0110101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 187 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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