This is an analysis of This Time Of Year A Twelvemonth Past by Alfred Edward Housman.
This time of year a twelvemonth past,
When Fred and I would meet,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 010101001 111111 11110111 111111 11010101 110101 11010111 100101 01011101 111101 01111100 010101 110111010 110111 111111010 111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
we
