This is an analysis of Wet Evening In April by Patrick Kavanagh.

The birds sang in the wet trees
And I listened to them it was a hundred years from now…

Browse poems by Patrick Kavanagh

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 0110011 11100001010001 11111111110000 11111101011 01010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

and