This is an analysis of In After Years by Augusta Davies Webster.
LOVE is dying. Why then, let it die.
Trample it down, that it die more fast.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbcaa defefdX dbgbgdX fXhXhff
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 101011101 100110111 100111101 100100101 1100100111 1011101111 10101 11101111 10111111 101110101 1101101001 11111111 111100100 10111 11111101 110110101 0111000111 011011101 11111111 1101101010 11101 111001001 011011111 1011101010 1111010110 1100100101 011110111 10101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
it, love, and, we
Anaphora
what, let, because
