This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Age that begins with:
Is it the dawn of a Golden Age
And a swift release from pain?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababccdd bebeffbb cbcbgghh XAaaabbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000100101 1010101 01010111 111101 111010101 11011111 1100100101 110110101 101110101 1010111 11111101 1010101 11101101001 101010101 11111101 111111111 010110111 0100111 101010111 0100111 101011001 01010001 1010110111 01000101 000100101 1010111 101010100 110111 110010111 110011101 11010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, where are repeated.
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- summary of The Golden Age;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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