Analysis of The Flight of Youth
William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)
Youth! ere thou be flown away.
Surely one last boon to-day
Thou'lt bestow-
One last light of rapture give,
Rich and lordly fugitive!
Ere thou go.
What, thou canst not? What, all spent?
All thy spells of ravishment
Pow'rless now?
Gone thy magic out of date?
Gone, all gone that made thee great?-
Follow thou!
| Scheme | AABCCB XBDEED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 1011111 101 1111101 101100 111 1111111 11111 11 1110111 1111111 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 304 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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