This is an analysis of the poem The Chase Of Ages that begins with:
Light of my lives! Is the time not yet?
Lo, I've brooded on a star... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcded afgfdehX cigiaaja akXllbkb XXaXdcec eaeXegag amhmXjejXcbabaded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101100111 1110101 1100100111 101101 1110100101 1111101 111011111 1110011 111011111 101001 1010101100 010111 111010101 0110101 1100101001 10100100 1111110101 10101101 1111100101 1011101 11111111 1010111 111111101 00100101 011110111 1011100 11110001 1110010 11010010 0010101 111110101 11101101 110101111 1111101 111111111 1100100 1111110101 1111101 1110111111 11100111 10101000101 1101111 11111101 0110100 1110111101 1110101 111011111 1011101 1101100111 101101 011110101 1111111 11011111 1111111 011100101 1100101 111110111 1010111 110111111 1110111 101111101 11000101 101010101 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, again, we, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chimpanzee is repeated).
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