This is an analysis of the poem The Four Ages Of Man: 03 - Youth that begins with:
My goodly clothing and beauteous skin
Declare some greater riches are within,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbeeffaagghhiXccjkllkkiXXillccllmmnaooeehheeaammkkppmmmmqqqqrraannjkeeaaiihhllkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 90,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101101 0111010101 1101110101 1101001101 11011101010 11111111010 1101011101 1111110101 010110101 0101111101 0100011111 1100110101 0101010111 1111001001 0101010111 010111011 1101010101 1110011111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110111 1100111111 1101000001 1111110110 11010101001 1101110101 1111011100 1101110111 0011110101 0011100101 1111110010 1111111111 1101110101 1101010111 1101010100 1100110101 10111111100 1101110100 1111010111 1111110110 0111010101 1101010111 0111010111 0111111111 1011011101 0101101101 0111010101 0111011111 0101010111 1111011011 11010101001 0101001111 1101110111 1101111100 0101111001 1111111101 0101010011 1101010111 1110011100 1001010101 1111110011 01001010111 1001011111 1101010100 1111011111 1101101001 1101111011 1111111111 1001010101 11010100101 110101110010 11011110010 01110100110 01110111010 01110111010 11110111110 0101110100 0110011101 0101011101 0101000101 0101010111 1110010101 1101010001 1101110101 1111010011 1101100111 0101110111 1101010101 1111111111 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3809
- Average number of words per stanza: 707
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, my, as, and, to, sometimes, by, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, my, sometimes, that are repeated.
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