This is an analysis of An Evening by Dora Wilcox.
TO break the stillness of the hour
There is no sound, no voice, no stir;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXba cddc beeb fgge heeh ijji ebbfXgbbg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 010100010 10111111 10010101 0101001110 01111001 010010100 10010111 0111010010 11000111 110011101 11000101 01010101 11011101 11110101 11011111 11000111 1110100 01110111 11011101 11011101 11111101 11111101 11111101 11010001 11011111 11111111 11010101 11010101 11110101 11111111 11110101 11111100 10011101 11111111 11111101 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
of, no, and, on, thee
Anaphora
and, on
