This is an analysis of Xxvi: Good Creatures Do You Love Your Lives by Alfred Edward Housman.
Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 01011111 111111 10011101 111011 11110011 110101 11010001 111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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