This is an analysis of the poem In Youth Is Pleasure that begins with:

IN a harbour grene aslepe whereas I lay,
The byrdes sang swete in the middes of the day, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaB cccB XddB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 00101100111 010110010001 1110111 1101001010 10111011 1001001111 111100111 1101001010 11110101 00010101 101111001 1101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word pleasure at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of In Youth Is Pleasure;
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  • history of its creation;
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