Analysis of My Youth
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Oh, my youth was hot and eager,
And my heart was burning, burning,
And the present joy seemed meagre,
Dwarfed by that perpetual yearning.
I was always madly asking
Ampler beauty, keener pleasure,
Had not wit enough for basking
In the sunshine, rich with leisure.
Now with ripeness of October
I have reasoned and reflected.
And I feed my soul, grown sober,
With the crumbs that I rejected.
Scheme | ABAB BABA AXAX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111010 01111010 0010111 111010010 1111010 1101010 11101110 0011110 1111010 11100010 01111110 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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