This is an analysis of In Youth by Evaleen Stein.

NOT lips of mine have ever said:
"Would God that I were dead!"…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaababcc
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 11011101 10111010 11011101 11011111 010010101 11111101 111100111 11111101 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

life