This is an analysis of Sonnet Iii by Alan Seeger.
There was a youth around whose early way
White angels hung in converse and sweet choir,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXXeXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101011101 11010101110 1001010101 01110100010 0111010101 1011010101 1101110111 010101101011 0101011111 1111011000 1011000110 01010010101 0101010101 0011110011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
in
Anaphora
a
