This is an analysis of The Days When We Were Young by Henry Clay Work.
Sister! Sister! don't you remember
The days when we were young?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABcBBdefEE ABXBBXfcFF ABgBBgddDD
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,
- Metre: 101011010 011101 0111001101 10100101 10100101 111011101 111101 11011110 1010101 1010101 101011010 011101 0101001101 10101111 10101111 101011101 110101 11010111 0011101 0011101 101011010 011101 0101101011 110001101 110001101 111011101 111101 11010111 1111101 1111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 30
Anaphora
the, like, while, where, in, we
Epiphora
strung, remain, clung, home, among, ties
