This is an analysis of the poem His Age:Dedicated To His Peculiar Friend,Mr John Wickes, Under The Name Ofpostumus that begins with:
Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly
And leave no sound: nor piety,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdddX eeaaeeaX ffddddgg eeeeeehh ddeeaadd iijjeekk XlmmaXnn XhiiXoff ooplcccc mmccXXdd hhaahhdd ppqqgghh ddhhhhll fXpphhaX XhddffnX eennfffo ddnXrrXo aabbhXff dXjjffeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011 11111100 1111 11010001 1111 11111111 110011001 01010100 01010101 11011111 0101 11001101 0101 11011101 11111111 11011101 11011111 01011101 1101 11111101 1101 10010111 11100011 010101001 11111101 11011101 1101 11010101 1101 11011101 11110101 11011111 11110101 11010111 1111 0101010 1111 10011110 11111111 10011101 11111111 11010111 111 01010101 1101 01010101 01111111 11010011 01111101 11010110 1111 11111101 1101 01110100 11110111 11010101 11111111 11001101 1011 11110101 0101 11001111 01011111 111110100 11111101 111111100 1111 10011100 1111 11111111 11111101 11010111 10111111 1111101 0111 11100111 1001 01010101 10111101 01011101 10010111 11110111 1101 11111101 1111 1110010111 1101111 11010011 1100111 1101011101 1001 01000111 1111 1001101 11011101 10011101 111111001 01010101 0111 01100101 1001 01011001 110100010 11001110 10110001 11010100 1111 1110111 1100 10111001 01100011 1111010 11010111 11011101 1101 01011111 1101 1101101 10111111 10101101 111011101 00110101 0101 11010011 1001 11010001 11011101 10010001 10110101 100101001 1101 110111000 1111 11010111 11010101 11010101 01110101 11110110 11010 111111110 1010 0100101010 01111111 11010100 111101011 011010101 1111 10010101 0111 11110111 01111101 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 152
- 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; with, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, but, to, a are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' 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 none connects the lines.
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