This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Xix: It Is Written In The Book that begins with:

It is written in the book that Man, when fifty, must leave the
noisy world, to go to the forest seclusion. But the poet proclaims...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcbXbacX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001000111110110 101010010010101001 10101000101011000 110101010111110 11101101010101 0111011110100101 01101111010110110 10110001001101100 11101111001110 110001001011001 100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 672
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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