This is an analysis of the poem The Lips Of Ages that begins with:
Down thro' the ages these same sticks
Have played on man their knavish tricks.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcX ddccccXe ffgghhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11111101 11010111 10110111 01110101 01011101 11001101 101101010 11000101 01010101 11011101 10010101 11011101 11000101 01011100 01110101 11010111 11011111 11111111 01010111 11001101 11110111 11010111 0100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, or are repeated.
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