This is an analysis of Taedium Vitae by Oscar Wilde.
To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear
This paltry age's gaudy livery,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadddede
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01110100101 0101010100 0111111100 0111010101 10110100111 1101111101 1011110101 1101000101 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
