This is an analysis of To The Evening Star by William Blake.

Thou fair-haired angel of the evening,
Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXXdbdbcaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 111100010 1101110101 1110111001 1111011101 1111111100 110001101101 11001011011 0101111111 01110011001 1101010111 1101101101 1010110110 0100111100 1101010001100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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