This is an analysis of the poem Of The Four Ages Of Man that begins with:
Lo, now four other act upon the stage,
Childhood and Youth, the Many and Old age:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddcceeffXXgghhffbbggXijjddiiffiikkaajjgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1111010111 01110111010 01010111010 0101010100 0111111101 01010110001 1000110001 01011101010 10101101110 1111011101 0011101011 0101100101 0111010100 111100011110 01011100101 0101001111 10011101110 01010010001 11101110111 1011101101 1111110011 1111010010 11111101010 0101010101 0101001101 10010111000 11101100010 0111100101 1101110101 1101110101 1101111101 1101010111 1111110101 0111001101 111110001 0111110001 1101111111 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1001011111 1001010111 1100011111 0101011111 1101101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1964
- Average number of words per stanza: 375
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, his, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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