This is an analysis of the poem The World's Age that begins with:
Who will say the world is dying?
Who will say our prime is past?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efeXgfgf gcgcaaaa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1011101 101001110 1101101 11101010 1010111 10101010 10001 10101010 1010101 10101010 1111100 10101010 10010111 10111010 11110 10110010 1110101 11101010 1010101 10111110 1010101 111001110 10101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; while is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, while are repeated.
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