This is an analysis of Xxi: The World Goes None The Lamer by Alfred Edward Housman.
The world goes none the lamer
For ought that I can see,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdXd ebXbXeaca
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
- Metre: 0111010 111111 010110 111111 01010110 010101 1101110 010111 1101010 111111 1111010 111101 1101110 110111 1111110 011111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
farewell, and
Anaphora
the, farewell
