This is an analysis of When You Are Old by William Ernest Henley.
When you are old, and I am passed away –
Passed, and your face, your golden face is gray –…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaXabCXaabbaC
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 1111111101 1111110101 1110010101 1001010101 10111111011 1100111101 1111110011 11110010101 1111 1101011001 0101010101 1111111111 1111010101 1111111101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
