This is an analysis of On The Busts Of Milton, In Youth And Age, At Stourhead by William Lisle Bowles.

IN YOUTH.
Milton, our noblest poet, in the grace…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaabbacXcXdd X effeeffefgfggg
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,
  • Metre: 01 1011010001 01011111001 1101111101 0101001101 0100110101 1111010111 11110100101 1100111101 1100110101 0001010100 1101010001 0100011101 1101111111 1101110111 01 1111111101 1101111011 1101111101 0101001111 0101110011 11110101001 1001010101 1101111101 01010000101 0011010101 0101011001 1101110101 110111000101 1011111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 31

Repeated words/phrases

in, and, of

Anaphora

and, a, of