This is an analysis of Youth And Knowledge by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
What price, child, shall I pay for your bright eyes
(How large a debt!) the light they shed on me?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXabXbXabXa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111111111 1101011111 1111110101 1111110101 1111010100 1001101101 0101011110 0101110101 1111111101 1111110111 1101110101 1011111101 10011101100 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
your, nor
Anaphora
your, the