This is an analysis of the poem The Defeat Of Youth that begins with:
I. UNDER THE TREES.
There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXcXddddecfdfdX ghhgijjiaajdjd X bkbkgagalldadaX jeejcjjcaammmm e iffigddgnnahahd fggfeceeaakdkd X ceeebllbggopopa bddbeddcqqgkgk X qjjqpbbpggmrmrf pqqpabbaggafbf e fXXfsmmsaajljlX XaaXjddjbblblb X laalfggfgXlalaX Xbbkdssdiiadad X jcejgddgbbakbXX meem
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,14,1,15,14,1,15,14,1,15,14,1,15,14,1,15,14,1,15,14,1,15,14,1,15,14,1,15,14,1,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001 1101010101 0010010100 0101001100 10011101010 11010111001 01110001101 1011010101 10110011111 1111111101 1101010100 11111111011 1101010001 01001001111 101100001 1 11011101101 1001010011 0111010101 0111110101 01010000101 01111101001 11010010111 1001010101 0101011101 0101010001 1001110101 0011111101 11100101001 11011111001 1 1111010001 1101110101 10010111001 00101110101 11010100001 1111010011 1111010101 0101001101 11010100010 011001010010 1110110101 0101010101 10110100001 0011010101 1 1111110001 1101011101 0111111001 01010111001 1001110100 1111011111 1011011101 1101111100 1101010101 0101001011001 1101010101 01001111101 00110011111 11111010000 1 110001101001 0101110101 11010010111 1101010101 01011101001 11010101001 10110010101 01100101011 1001001101 110110000111 110101001001 0101010101 101101001001 00110001001 10011 0100010111 0011100101 1111110101 1101010001 1101110101 1101111100 1011111011 1111000101 1111110101 1111011001 10001111 1101010111 1101111101 1001010011 1 0100011100 1111001101 11001110101 010010110001 0100110001 010000100010 010101001010 0111011101 1101101101 1010111101 10110000101 00010110111 00110110001 1100111101 110 0101100111 01001010101 0100111101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010111 1111010111 11110101000 1001101111 1111111101 0100011111 01011100111 01001011001 1101011101 1 01110001101 1101100101 1111111101 11110100101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 0101110101 01000101010 11011001010 1001110111 1001010111 10010101110 1101000101 100101 1010001101 0101110101 0011101101 0101110101 0100110101 0101100111 01000101101 01010100011 0101011101 0111110101 11111101 0111111101 010010110101 1011010101 1 1101100101 1001011101 1101101101 0100110111 1011010111 1101010101 1001011001 1101011101 1101111111 1001010101 0101100100 1001111100 1001001111 1111000110 1 0101111000 11010111010 01110001010 10101110100 1111110011 10100010101 0111011001 1101011101 1001100100 1101010111 010010101010 0010010101101 01010001010 1111010011 1 11011001010 1111110011 1111000101 10010101110 1001010001 1011111101 11010100101 0011001101 1111110011 11011100100 11010111010 1101011111 11010101010 1010111111 1 11111111110 1101010101 1101011111 01000011111 1101110100 0101110100 10010011111 1101010100 1101110111 1100011001 1101011111 1101010111 0101010101 1101000101 1 11011101001 1101010100 0101010001 1100010101 0011011101 1101010101 010011100101 10001010111 0101011001 1101000111 0011010001 0111010101 11001000101 11111111110 1 1001100111 1100010111 1101011111 01001000100 1101010101 1100111111 1111110111 11100001011 11110101001 1111010101 1011010111 1111011100 1101011111 1101110101 1001 1011110111 1101000100 1111110101 1001010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 01011010101 1111111101 1101011101 0100010001 1101111101 01001111001 110001110010 1 11010111101 1011010111 1011010110 0101010101 1001010001 01111101010 11110001010 01010010101 01010000101 01010010101 11001101001 11011100001 11110101 1111001100 1 11010111110 0100110111 0111100101 011101101110 1101001111 1101000111 0011010101 11001110101 01001011101 10111010101 01101010001 110011001001 0111110101 11011011010 1101 0111100110 01110101001 01001010101 1111101101 1001110001 10111001010 100110110010 1010110011 0101110101 0101010101 00111011011 11010100001 11011111011 1100011101 1 11010101010 0101110111 10001010111 01010111010 1101110101 0101011001 0101011101 1001111101 1111110101 1011011101 11011000101 0101001100 0101111101 1111010101 1010001 1001001101 01110101001 1110011111 0101010101 01011110111 1101110101 0011010111 1111111111 100001000101 01010100001 11010111001 0101110101 0101011101 1111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 336
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in, that, her, he, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, a, of, the, from are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines park is repeated).
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