This is an analysis of Hebe by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
YOUTH! thou art a lovely time,
With thy wild and dreaming eyes;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbXbbb efefgg hihidd XgXghh
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1110101 0111101 1010011 1011101 1111111 1110101 1111101 1011111 1110101 1110101 10101010 10011010 1111111 1010101 1010111 1110101 1110111 1110111 1011101 10100101 1011111 0010101 1011101 10100101 1111101 1110101 11111110 1011111 1110101 1010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
let, of, and
Anaphora
let

