This is an analysis of When Evening Shadows Fall by James Whitcomb Riley.
When evening shadows fall,
She hangs her cares away…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbabcacA dbdbeaeA fgfghahA
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 110111 110101 11010101 110001 1111001 110101 11010101 110111 010101 010001 01010101 010101 100111 110001 010110101 110111 110111 110001 11000111 111101 111101 011111 11011101 110111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
and, the
