This is an analysis of For My Son Noah, Ten Years Old by Robert Bly.
Night and day arrive and day after day goes by,
and what is old remains old, and what is young remains…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabXcXaX aXXbXcX bcXbXbb
- Stanza lengths: 8,7,7,
- Metre: 111011110111 1101011110101 1111 101011111010 101111110 1011110110111 100 010001011011 01101111111 01010110010110 1100 11010001001100011 01 11001111010011 1110 11111001111101010 100 111101101100 100001 110001010101001 11110100111001 1111101011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
and, day, old
Anaphora
the, or