This is an analysis of Youth In Age by George Meredith.

Once I was part of the music I heard
On the boughs or sweet between earth and sky,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbaab
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1111001011 1011101111 1100100111 1110001001 110111101 1010100101 1110001001 10011110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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