This is an analysis of Our Life Is Like A Forest, Where The Sun by Charles Sangster.

Our life is like a forest, where the sun
Glints down upon us through the throbbing leaves;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abacdcbdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101110101 0111011111 1100111101 1101010101 1111011101 1101010111 1111110011 1101101101 0111110011 1101010111 0111010111 0101010111 111111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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