This is an analysis of the poem To Posterity that begins with:
1.
Indeed I live in the dark ages!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X AXbca adbeaf gefhe eijji aacdkbfXdbA X lcgdHH ambbHH cXhmHH X cgiadX agb flkbhbc bkbj X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,6,5,5,11,1,6,6,6,1,6,3,7,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 011100110 01010101000110100 011111 1111 010010 111100 1010101101 1000101001010 1111100101 011101001 010 00111110 101100101100 1011101010111 1111101111 111 11111101110 1111111 111010010 111010010010 111111 111001 011111100 0101001 111101 1011 101100 0100110 1010001011000 10110 111100 011100110 1 1100100010010 1101 110110010010 1101000 101101 1111101 111101100 01101010111 11111100100 1101100010 101101 1111101 011110011 101100100 11101111011 0101101010111 101101 1111101 1 11101001 011110 1 11101100 100011 1101 11100110110111 0011010 1111001011010 1111011 10010010 10111 101001010 10111011 11010010010 110101 111110101 11110101 1111 110 100011110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, my, me, and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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