This is an analysis of The Tyme Of Youthe by Henry VIII, King of England.

The tyme of youthe is to be spent;
But vice in it shuld be forfent.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aX XX bb cc Xa dd
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Metre: 01010001 11001010 10010111 1111111 110100111 11110111 1100101110 1010001110 100000110001 1101001011 10011101 011001011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

be, and