This is an analysis of The Old Man's Blessing by Lady Jane Wilde.
Mine eye is dull, my hair is white,
This arm is powerless for the fight,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffXXggbbhhiiXXcjXjXdXXXiiggkkXbbXiibb
- Stanza lengths: 10,37,
- Metre: 11011101 010100101 01010101 1101111 11011101 11111101 01111101 01111101 11011101 010011101 01111101 11111101 1110111 10111100 11101010 11101010 1110101 11010101 111010 1010101 10101001 1010011 1110100 00001010 00001010 1000111 101010 11101111 111011 11011101 0011100 11111100 11101110 11101001 1010101 1111101 11111001 1011100 1111100 111111100 10101110 11111111 001010 101111 10011101 010111001 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 47
Repeated words/phrases
may, be, thy, ye
Anaphora
may, be
