This is an analysis of the poem Eight Years Old that begins with:
SUN, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears,
Rise, let the time of year be May,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababab X babababa X ababaXab X babababa b abababab b babababa X abababab XXbabababa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100111 11010101 11011101 11110101 110110101 11010111 01010110 11110101 1 11011101 01110100 1101111011 01111101 110111001 111010101 11010101 11011101 1 11010111 01010111 11010111 010101001 11010101 11011101 010101100 11010101 1 11011101 10110100 11110111 0101101111 11110101 11010011 10110111 01011101 1 01001111 11000001 11011111 01100001 11011110 11110101 11110111 110100101 1 11100101 11011101 11100101 11111101 11011101 111100110 11001101 11110111 1 11111111 11110111 11010000 110010111 111111011 111111001 1010100111 011101001 1 11110001 110101111 01011101 11110111 011110011 11110111 11010101 011100110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words should, whose are repeated.
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- summary of Eight Years Old;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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