This is an analysis of The Flight Of Youth by William Watson.

Youth! ere thou be flown away.
Surely one last boon to-day…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb dXbddb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 1110101 1011101 101 1110101 1110100 111 1111111 1110100 101 1110101 1111111 101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

gone