Analysis of A Farewell To Youth
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
Ere that I say farewell to youth, and take
The homely road that leads to life's decline,
Let me be sure again I shall not pine
To taste the bliss you bid me to forsake:
That Spring's returning raptures will not wake
Too late repentance for abjuring mine,
Nor the old sweets I pledge me to resign
Behind them leave the bitterness of ache.
Yet is there nothing of one's generous prime
To bear me kindred company to the end,
Some passionate longing, some belief sublime,
Some wrong to right, some failure to befriend?
Leave me but these, I care not where I wend,
But down life's slope go hand-in-hand with Time.
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Metre | 111111101 0101111101 1111011111 1101111101 110101111 11010111 1011111101 0111010011 11110111001 11110100101 11001010101 1111110101 1111111111 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 478 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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