This is an analysis of The Last Rose Of Summer by Charles Wolfe.

That strain again? It seems to tell
Of something like a joy departed;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XXXX dXdX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 010101010 11010101 110111010 11110101 1111001010 01010101 111101010 11111101 111001010 1101001110 110111010 11011101 1101010110 11011101 111101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

when, too