This is an analysis of the poem My Young Days Were Oppressed With Cares that begins with:
My young days were oppressed with cares,
On summer mornings I sat there,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXbccaddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11100101 11010111 10111001 1101111100 1111010111 10101101 0101011101 01010111 0101010101 01111111 11010101 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word without is repeated.
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