This is an analysis of A Spring Evening by Francis William Bourdillon.
Across the Glory of the glowing skies,
A veil is drawn of shadowed mists that rise…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXabb
- Stanza lengths: 7,
- Metre: 0101000101 0101010111 0100011101 1101111100 0111110101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 6