This is an analysis of In Youth I Have Known One by Edgar Allan Poe.

How often we forget all time, when lone
Admiring Nature's universal throne;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb c dededeff X eXegegbb X chXhchaa XXaaaaaaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
  • Metre: 1101011111 0101010101 0101010001 0100010100 1 0111110101 01001011100 0111010001 11010010111 0011111111 010011101011 11110110010 001101110010 1 0101011101 001010111110 1101011111 0101001101 1101100001 0100010111 100100111011 110011100101 1 110111110101 00110101001 0111010100 1101101101 0101110111 11001111101 00111001010 101110101010 1 01010110110 0101110101 11011101110 111110111 11100101110 1101010011 010010011101 1001110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

her, in, o'er, and, with

Anaphora

in