This is an analysis of The Four Ages Of Man: 04 - Middle Age by Anne Bradstreet.
Childhood and youth forgot, sometimes I've seen,
And now am grown more staid that have been green,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXaeeffgghhiidXaaaaccddjjbgddddbbbbkkgbbbddddaaeeddddllifccffddddbbggjjddddbbccjjccaabbhhXdbXbbmmbg
- Stanza lengths: 106,
- Metre: 1111010111 1111111101 1111011111 1111111110 1101101101 1111010101 1101111101 1101010111 1111011111 1101010011 1101111101 1101110101 11011101010 11010100010 1111110100 1101111000 0101011111 1100011111 010110101 01111111101 00101110101 1011110110 0101110001 0111010011 11111111010 11011101010 11110111111 1101111101 1111110111 0111101111 1101111101 0100110001 0111100111 0101110100 1101011101 1101011111 0101011111 11001010101 0010011001 1100111101 1101001111 1100111111 1111010111 0111010111 0101010100 0101010111 1111110010 11001010101 1111011111 1101111111 0010101101 1101010101 0101010101 11001101101 1101110101 11001110011 1101100111 1011011011 0100110011 1001011001 11011110001 1111101101 0101110001 11011111110 0001110111 1111010101 10110111010 11010111110 0101010111 0111010111 11010111110 11011111110 1011111011 100110111 1111010100 1111011100 1101011100 1011000101 1101011111 1001001111 1111111101 0111111001 1111110101 1101010101 0111000101 0111010111 0101010101 1111110111 1101010101 1110010101 0101011011 1100111101 1011111111 1001110100 0101010101 1110010001 0101011101 0101010101 0101110101 100101100 010101010011 10010001111 0101010101 1111000111 10011111000 1101010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 106
Repeated words/phrases
more, my, to, if, then, for, i, and, all, nor, of, in
Anaphora
but, if, the, my
Epiphora
me
