This is an analysis of Love Of Life by Alfred Austin.
Why love life more, the less of it be left,
And what is left be little but the lees,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010001 1101010101 1101010101 11110111001 0011010101 0101100001 11010100111 1011010101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101010111 1100010101 010101110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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