This is an analysis of Youth by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
WHY linger round the sunken wrecks
Where old Armadas found their graves?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc bbbbbdbd Xababdbd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 11010101 11100111 11010101 11110101 11011101 11010101 111101001 11110101 11010101 11110111 01011101 0101100101 01010111 010100101 11110111 11100101 110111001 010100101 01010101 01110101 101010111 11010101 11011101 110111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
young, the
