This is an analysis of The Lamp Of Life by Amy Lowell.
Always we are following a light,
Always the light recedes; with groping hands…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacacaac
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 111110001 1101010101 1101010101 1101110011 11010010101 1111111101 0101011101 1011010111 1101110101 0101110001 0100101111 1101010101 1101010111 0111010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
we, our
Anaphora
always, we, its, but
