This is an analysis of They Who Prepare My Evening Meal Below by Henry David Thoreau.
They who prepare my evening meal below
Carelessly hit the kettle as they go…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcbc ccdada
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 1101110101 1001010111 01110 110111 10010 0111010101 1111011111 11010100101 11110 10001 1011010 010101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
