This is an analysis of the poem At Seventeen that begins with:
You were a child, and liked me, yesterday.
To-day you are a woman, and perhaps... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXabba cdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111101 0111010101 1101100011 0100010111 1011111011 1101110101 1111110111 1010010100 10001010111 1110010101 10011101100 1111110111 1111111111 1001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of At Seventeen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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