This is an analysis of Life! I Know Not What Thou Art by Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
LIFE! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc cddceebbaaffcc ffggheXh
- Stanza lengths: 8,14,8,
- Metre: 1111111 11111111 11111111 110110101 10111111 100111101 11110010 11110101 11010111 11011101 100101 1111110101 0011001001 011101 11110111 010110001 111101 111111 1101000101010 01111001110 1110111100 1111111111 11101010 110111010 11011111 01110101 110111010 1111 1101101101 11010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
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