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?…

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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