This is an analysis of Too Young For Love by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Too young for love?
Ah, say not so!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ABbccABDB ABccbXABDB
  • Stanza lengths: 9,10,
  • Metre: 1111 1111 110011101 111010101 11010101 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 01011101 11010101 11011101 1111 1111 1111 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

not, too, young, no