This is an analysis of Written Soon After The Preceding Poem by Charles Lamb.
Thou should'st have longer liv'd, and to the grave
Have peacefully gone down in full old age!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXabcXdbecXdXaXbXaXfedXeddfXa X
- Stanza lengths: 29,1,
- Metre: 1111011001 1100110111 1101110111 1111111101 11101111101 11111101010 010010101001 01001100101 1111000101 01011001101 1101110100 0101111111 0101010101 1011010111 0101011101 0101111101 1101010100 1101110101 01001010101 1001111111 1001011111 1011011111 1111010101 1110100101 1101001011 1101000101 1110100101 1111111101 1110110001 0101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
have, old, and, of, his, to
