This is an analysis of the poem The Way Of The World that begins with:
When fairer faces turn from me,
And gayer friends grow cold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbCdddddcdCXababbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110111 11111100 010101 11110101 011101 11011101 111101 11010111 010111 11110101 110101 11010101 111101 11010111 111101 11111111 111110 11001101 111101 11110101 110111 10110001 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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