This is an analysis of the poem The Aged Patriarch that begins with:
Of life's past woes, the fading trace
Hath given that aged patriarch's face... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eefX ffdd ffbb ffeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 110111011 01010101 01100001 010010111 11100101 01111101 01010001 11111101 10010101 101110001 11010100 110010101 01010101 11010111 01000101 11111101 01010011 10100111 10110101 101110001 11011101 11010001 0100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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