This is an analysis of The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant.
Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou
That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abababbb cdcdcdee dfdgdgff chXhchaa ijijijkk
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1011011101 1101100101 1001110111 1101010111 1011011111 100111100111 1100111101 00111100001 1101010101 0110010001 1101111101 10011000101 1100011101 1011110101 11000100111 1101010101 1101011001 1011010111 0111000101 10000010001 0111001101 1010111101 01010110101 1101000010101 0111110101 0111110101 1101011100 0101010111 1111010111 1101001101 1101010001 1101000101 1101000101 1001010101 0111011101 1011100111 1100011111 11011100001 11000110111 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
of, his, to, and
