This is an analysis of Remain! by Walter Savage Landor.

REMAIN, ah not in youth alone!
   --Tho' youth, where you are, long will stay--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 01110101 111111101 11110111 11010101 110111110 110101111 11110101 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Anaphora

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