This is an analysis of the poem To Ladies Of A Certain Age that begins with:
Ye ancient Maids, who ne'er must prove
The early joys of youth and love,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbff gghheebb iijjgg hhddeeff iikkllmmjjdd eehhbbggiikk lleeieeeaannee iihhff eegXbb ccjjeeeehhoocckkee bbccmmccbbggbbffiijjkkeehheejjdd lljjffee cceeffhhee jjeehhiinl hhffjjbbhhiieeoo Xbbffhhffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,8,6,8,12,12,14,6,6,18,32,8,10,10,16,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 01010111 111101110 110001010 01010101 11000101 11110101 1101001 11011101 10010101 01110101 01010101 01010111 11011101 110111010 110101010 11111101 11110101 11101111 11111100 11010101 11010001 11010111 11010101 1100111001 110010101 11010111 11010001 11010111 011000101 01000101 01010101 011010101 01010101 11010111 01010101 11110101 110101001 01010101 01010101 01010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11000101 110010101 111010101 01010100 01010111 11010101 10110011 11010101 010011101 10010101 10010001 01010101 100011101 110010101 11010101 11110111 01110111 01110101 110100101 11100101 010111001 01010101 1000110101 01010101 11110001 110101010 010101010 11010101 010110101 11111101 01011011 011111001 11010101 11010101 11111111 11010111 01010101 010101010 110100010 110101010 0100110010 01010101 10110111 01011101 11010101 11001101 11010101 11110101 010010011 01010101 01010101 010010111 110010101 01100111 010100111 101101001 10010101 1101001010 010001010 111101110 110101010 11010011 11110111 11011011 10010101 11011101 110010101 111101110 110001010 11011101 11110001 11011101 01101111 10110011 11111101 110111001 01011101 11011101 01011101 01010101 110100101 11011111 110111001 01110101 11010111 11011101 11011101 11010111 111011001 01010111 110111011 11010111 01011101 01010101 11010101 01010101 110101001 11010101 11010101 11010101 11010001 01010101 01010101 11010101 01010101 01011101 11011101 01110011 11010101 00110101 11010101 11010101 01010101 10110101 100111111 110100101 11010101 110101010 11010101 01110101 11011101 11110101 11000101 11010001 111100111 11111101 01010001 11001101 010001101 11110111 01011101 11011101 110101101 11011001 010100101 11010101 01111110 10010101 011101011 10110011 11010101 11110101 01110111 010010101 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 205
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; to, and, of, thy, her, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words while, to, the, that, which, and, no, what are repeated.
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