This is an analysis of the poem Tithonus that begins with:
So when the verdure of his life was shed,
With all the grace of ripened manlihead, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeeffccggeegghhffeeaacchXccXXeeeeaaXgiiffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101000111 0101010100 1101111100 1111000101 10011100101 1001010001 1001110111 01010100100 1111010101 1101111101 1101110111 0111011100 1100111101 1001000100 0101011101 1111100101 1101110001 0101010101 10110110101 1101011111 1101010111 10110100001 1111010101 11000110101 1011010101 11110101001 1101110001 010100101001 1111010111 1110011101 0101010001 10101111000 1011010101 1001010101 0101010101 11010101000 1111010101 1101010101 1101011001 1101010101 11001001101 1011111101 01011101110 1011111111 1101110101 1011010111 1111100101 1001000101 1011010101 1011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2203
- Average number of words per stanza: 359
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Tithonus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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