This is an analysis of the poem Octogenery Reflections that begins with:
Say, ye who through this round of eighty years
Have proved its joys and sorrows, hopes and fears,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeffaaggeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010100 1101110111 11011100111 110010100101 01000101010 01010101010 0101110111 01010110101 0101010101 0101110101 1101011001 10111001001 1101010111 1011110001 1001011101 11110000101 1101001111 11010101010 01010111010 0111010101 0101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 932
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; enough, and, to, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words enough, to are repeated.
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