This is an analysis of the poem Gemini And Virgo that begins with:
Some vast amount of years ago,
Ere all my youth had vanished from me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac deXe dfdf Xgeg bXbh dhdh bibi hfhf jgjg acaX kckc kckc eheh kXkc ldld acac amam hfXf dgdg nknk adad dfdf gogo pfpf ogog kfkf okok hfhf qXqX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010001 111111001 01011101 100101110 11010101 011100010 101111000 110101010 11110111 111101010 11010111 110111010 11110101 101101010 11110111 111101110 10110101 11111111 11010101 0100101010 11110101 010100010 11110001 100100010 11110111 000100111 110001101 100110011 11110011 111111010 11110101 111101110 111111001 1111110110 11011100 110101010 10111101 110101010 10010011 111101111 110100111 000111010 11010101 010011110 11010001 110100010 01000100 111101010 11010101 111111010 11010101 111011010 11010101 010101010 01010101 111111010 11010101 111111010 11111001 011111110 01011111 111111010 11010101 111101010 10111101 110011110 11010111 011101010 11100101 0111010010 10010100 010100110 01110111 110101010 10010101 010111110 11010101 110100110 11100001 011101011 10111101 010111010 11011001 111101110 11111101 111101010 11110111 110111010 11110111 111111010 11010101 111101010 10111111 111101010 10010101 010101010 11011101 101111010 11111100 110111110 01010111 110101010 01110111 110001110 11010101 010001101 10010111 110101110 110001101 101110010 011110001 1110001010 01110101 010101100 110111001 010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 117
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, our, we, his, of, i'd, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his, i'd, we are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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