This is an analysis of A Retrospect by Frances Anne Kemble.
Life wanes, and the bright sunlight of our youth
Sets o'er the mountain-tops, where once Hope stood.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccddXeeXffgg
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 1110111011 11001011111 1100110011 1111110100 1011110101 1011010101 110010111101 1101010111 0011010110 0101010101 11110010101 1001111111 1100111111 1111011111 1011010101 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
o, of, i
