This is an analysis of The Mystic Veil by Henry Clay Work.
When the shadows take their nightly places,
When departing light is faint and pale,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcded ccdeD fgfgcdeD ahahXdeD
- Stanza lengths: 8,5,8,8,
- Metre: 1011111010 101010111 10110101010 1010101 1100101010 10011101 111100011 1011101 111101110 11101110 11101110111 111100011 1011101 1110101010 10111010101 10110101010 0010111 1010101010 101010101 111100011 1011101 1010101010 111010111 11111111010 1010111 1001101010 111100101 111100011 1011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
one, my
Anaphora
when, come
