This is an analysis of Evening In Autumn by James Thomson.

The western sun withdrawn the shorten'd day,
And humid evening, gliding o'er the sky…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdXecbXdXeaXfdXfdd
  • Stanza lengths: 21,
  • Metre: 0101010101 11010101001 0011100101 0101110101 1101111101 1001011101 0101011101 11011010101 1011000101 1001010101 1101100101 1101110110 0101110101 1001110101 1101011101 1101100101 1011011101 100110001001 11110101001 0111000101 010100100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

now