Analysis of When Evening Shadows Fall
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
When evening shadows fall,
She hangs her cares away
Like empty garments on the wall
That hides her from the day;
And while old memories throng,
And vanished voices call,
She lifts her grateful heart in song
When evening shadows fall.
Her weary hands forget
The burdens of the day.
The weight of sorrow and regret
In music rolls away;
And from the day's dull tomb,
That holds her in its thrall,
Her soul springs up in lily bloom
When evening shadows fall.
O weary heart and hand,
Go bravely to the strife--
No victory is half so grand
As that which conquers life!
One day shall yet be thine--
The day that waits for all
Whose prayerful eyes are things divine
When evening shadows fall.
Scheme | AbabcacA dbdbeaeA fgfghahA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 110101 11010101 110101 0111001 010101 11010101 11011 010101 010101 01110001 010101 010111 110011 01110101 11011 110101 110101 11001111 111101 111111 011111 11011101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 669 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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