This is an analysis of Immortality by Matthew Arnold.

Foil'd by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn,
We leave the brutal world to take its way,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaab baab abcXabc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
  • Metre: 1111010110 1101010101 1100010111 0110111111 10110010101 0111010101 1110010011 01010001001 1101000110 1110011110 1111100101 0101010101 0111110101 1111000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

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