This is an analysis of Tadium Vita by Oscar Wilde.

TO stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear
This paltry age's gaudy livery,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadddede
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01110100101 0101010100 0111111100 0111010101 10110100111 1101111101 1011110101 1101010101 1111100101 10110011111 1011100101 1101010100 1011011101 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

to, my

Anaphora

to