This is an analysis of Eight Years Old by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
SUN, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears,
Rise, let the time of year be May,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abababab X babababa X ababaXab X babababa b abababab b babababa X abababab XXbabababa
- Stanza lengths: 8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Metre: 110100111 11010101 11011101 11110101 110110101 11010111 01010110 11110101 1 11011101 01110100 1101111011 01111101 110111001 111010101 11010101 11011101 1 11010111 01010111 11010111 010101001 11010101 11011101 010101100 11010101 1 11011101 10110100 11110111 0101101111 11110101 11010011 10110111 01011101 1 01001111 11000001 11011111 01100001 11011110 11110101 11110111 110100101 1 11100101 11011101 11100101 11111101 11011101 111100110 11001101 11110111 1 11111111 11110111 11010000 110010111 111111011 111111001 1010100111 011101001 1 11110001 110101111 01011101 11110111 011110011 11110111 11010101 011100110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 71
Repeated words/phrases
and, to
Anaphora
should, whose
