Analysis of Evening Hymn.



The sun has set behind the hill,
The bird is sleeping in his nest;
And now, when all around is still,
I lay me down to welcome rest.

May the kind God, who lives above,
And watches o'er us day and night,
Bless us, and grant us, in His love,
Again to see the morning light.


Scheme ABAB CDCD
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 01110101 01110011 01110111 11111101 10111101 010101101 11011011 01110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 267
Words 57
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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H P Nichols

H. P. Nichols was an American poet and author, active in the 1850s. more…

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