This is an analysis of the poem The Four Ages Of Man: 05 - Old Age that begins with:
What you have been, ev'n such have I before,
And all you say, say I, and something more.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddefgghhbbiihhggfejjbbffccbbkjllmmXcnnXckkfefeggccoobbggppffddookjccccddggnnaaggggggooqqbbooaaggkkoo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 106,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111101 1111111101 10100110111 100110110 10101010011 1101110111 1101111111 1111010011 01001111100 1101010111 0111010111 1101110101 01110100111 11010111001 0111011101 1101110101 1001011111 1111111011 1101010111 0101100101 1010110111 0011001111 01010010111 0101110100 0101001001 1111010101 1101011111 01001011100 1101010101 1011110101 1101010101 1111100101 11111101011 1101010101 1111111001 1111111101 1111011111 10111100111 0101111101 1111111101 1111110011 1101110100 1101111001 0101110111 1101111101 11100011001 1101011101 0101110101 1111010101 1101100100 1111011111 1101110100 1111010101 1101110111 1111111111 0101000101 1011011111 1101010101 1101100011 1111011101 1101011101 1101011110 1111111001 1111011101 1101011101 1100011101 1101111101 1111010101 1101111111 1101011111 1101110101 1101101101 1101100101 1101011111 1111111111 1101111101 1101110101 1111110111 1101111101 1100110111 1101110111 1101110111 1111111111 1101111001 0101010111 1111110101 0101010111 0101010101 0101010111 1100100001 1101010101 1101111101 1101011101 110011100011 1101010111 111100110101 010110111 1011010111 0111110111 11111101011 1101111001 0101011001 1111011101 1110010001 1011111111 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4609
- Average number of words per stanza: 860
- Amount of lines: 106
- 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; have, i, and, my, in, saw, cannot, as, to, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sometimes, my, to are repeated.
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