This is an analysis of the poem Your Own Fair Youth that begins with:

Your own fair youth, you care so little for it--
Smiling toward Heaven, you would not stay the advances ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba XcbXcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11111111010 10011011110010 01110111010 111101010010 010010111010 11111111110 11011101010 01010101110 01110101100 11100100111 1011010100 11100101010 0111110101 1101011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Your Own Fair Youth;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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