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…

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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