This is an analysis of the poem Beauty That Is Never Old that begins with:
When buffeted and beaten by life's storms,
When by the bitter cares of life oppressed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab baba caac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110111 1101010101 1111010111 1111010111 1101111101 0101110101 0111011111 1101011101 0111110111 0101111111 0101111011 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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