This is an analysis of the poem A Young Poet In His 24th Year that begins with:
Brain, work now as well as you can.
A one-sided passion is destroying him....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXabcaXde XX XXXcXXcabdeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,2,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 01101000101 1001001010 100111001110 011111001 1101010001010 1010001001 0101010010 1100110010100 11010010000101010010 10100100110 11110011111 101111101 110011011 01011101 11101011111 11010110101 11100101111 01010011 1111111 11101001111 10100010010 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and are repeated.
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