This is an analysis of the poem The Age Of Reason that begins with:

Whene'er I read some savage tale
Of punishment devised... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcXXX defege ehihjh faeada XfhfaX Xkfkgk bgfgeg glXlel heXefe XieijX beieke chiXXX eiiihi cchcXX ihmhbh eebeee meiede aBcXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111101 010001 11001101 1101000 11000111 1111000 11110101 110111 01011101 010111 11011101 010101 11010101 110101 1011101 010111 11110100 010101 01100101 010101 01010011 010101 11011101 100011 10110100 110101 11001101 111101 01010101 100110 11011101 110101 11000101 111001 10010111 011101 01011111 110101 11010101 010111 01010111 110001 110011111 010111 11011101 010111 01110101 0101101 11010111 111101 11111100 110101 100111011 011101 11010010 010111 10110111 011101 01111100 01000100 11110111 110101 11110001 011101 11011101 110101 11110101 101101 11010101 111111 11011111 110101 11110111 011101 11010001 110101 00010101 001101 11011111 110110 10011100 110101 11110101 110100 11010101 100101 11011100 100011 011011001 101101 11110111 111101 11110001 001101 101111001 011101 01110101 010111 11101101 101101 11110101 110101 11111101 010001 11001101 1101000 11001101 1111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • 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; and, sons, ', we, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a, 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines throne is repeated).

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  • summary of The Age Of Reason;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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