This is an analysis of Xii: He Would Not Stay With Me And Who Can Wonder by Alfred Edward Housman.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 11111111110 1111110111 11011111010 1101110111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
Repeated words/phrases
and, my
Anaphora
he
