This is an analysis of When The Eye Of Day Is Shut by Alfred Edward Housman.
When the eye of day is shut,
And the stars deny their beams,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae afaf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 0110101 0011001 1111101 1111101 1011011 0011111 0110111 1110111 0110101 0011001 1111111 1111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
from, in, you
Anaphora
and, from, in
