This is an analysis of Christmas Eve by Eugene Field.
Oh, hush thee, little Dear-my-Soul,
The evening shades are falling,--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abcb Xbbb Abcb XdXdXabbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110111 0101110 11111111 01001010 11010101 1101010 01011111 0111010 11110111 1111010 11011111 0101110 01010101 11100010 11010101 10101110 11110111 1101110 10101001001 11101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
them, his
Anaphora
and
