This is an analysis of My Prime Of Youth Is But A Frost Of Cares by Chidiock Tichborne.
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaaA babaaA cdcdaA
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 1101010101 1101010101 11010101010 1110011101 01011111111 1111111101 00101110111 0101110111 1101111111 1101111111 1101110111 1111111101 1111110011 1111110101 1101110111 1111111111 0101110101 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
of, my, but, and, i, yet, it
Anaphora
my, the, i
