This is an analysis of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold.
What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcde dcbfg fcXXe ahafX hgXde XifXeXifhfe
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Metre: 100011 0001010001 010001 0011000101 1111001 000111 1111011101 000111 11010010101 111101 101111 1111011110 110111 1011010111 010101 110101 1001010101 110101 1111010001 001111 000111 1111110101 0001100 0011000011 010101 000100 1111110111 101101 1001010001 110101 001101 1111010111 010001 0101010101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
it, to, our, and
Anaphora
and