This is an analysis of the poem Spots Through The Ages that begins with:
Romance goes out of everything in these days of ill grace,
And even old John Barleycorn grows 'standardised' apace;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX aaXbX XXXXXX ccXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110101011011 110111001100001 11001100010111 110101010101001 11111101110101 1011101011101010 1001010111101 01011101111101 110111001110101 01110101001101 11111111110101 01100101011101 11001101110110 100111011010111 11110101110101 01110010111101 111111101101 11010101111101 11000110001100101 1111010011010 111101011110101 11011001010101 11010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- 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; of, him are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Spots Through The Ages;
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