This is an analysis of When Last We Parted by James Thomson.
When last we parted, thou wert young and fair,
How beautiful let fond remembrance say!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111011111 1100110101 01111111001 1100101101 1101010101 0101111111 11010010101 11001111011 1111010001 1111010101 0111111101 1101110101 1111111101 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
though
