As I walked out one evening (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. H. Auden
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Ballad
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Beauty, City life, Clocks or watches, Time, Cities or towns
The Poem
“As I walked out one evening” contains fifteen four-line stanzas rhyming abcb. The rhymes are masculine; the meter is a flexible iambic trimeter with all the unrhymed lines ending with an additional unstressed syllable. The language of this poem, which has no title but is usually designated by its first line, is relatively simple, but the poem presents three voices, one of which conveys a relatively short but beautiful love lyric, embedded in a more elaborate structure that complicates the reader’s response.
The first voice, not that of a lover but...
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