This is an analysis of Youth Sings A Song Of Rosebuds by Countee Cullen.

Since men grow diffident at last,
And care no whit at all,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXfXfX
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 11110011 111111 0010110101 110111 110110111 1111111 1010010101 0101101 011100111 11001001 0101101111 111111 111100101 11010010 11010101 1100010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

i, some