This is an analysis of the poem How Old Is My Heart, How Old? that begins with:
How old is my heart, how old, how old is my heart,
and did I ever go forth with song when the morn was new?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXaXX abXabXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110111111011 10110110110111 11011110111011 11111011011 11010100111 0111111110111 111110110100 1111100111011 1110100100101101 1111111010001 010100001111 1101111101101 11011110001001 11101100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, i, old, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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