This is an analysis of The State Of Age by George Meredith.
Rub thou thy battered lamp: nor claim nor beg
Honours from aught about thee. Light the young.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaccdeed
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111011111 1001011101 1101010101 1111010101 1110111101 10111101001 1011010101 1111001101 1000111101 11101101010 0101010101 10001011111 1011111101 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
