This is an analysis of Only To Live by Francis William Bourdillon.
Only to live! There nothing is more sweet.
Only to live! There nothing is more bitter.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABaXAabB
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1001110011 10011100110 10011101101 11010101010 1001110011 1001110101 10110101110 10011100110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
only, live, to
Anaphora
only
