This is an analysis of the poem The Twenty-Fifth Year Of His Life that begins with:
He goes regularly to the taverna
where they'd met the previous month....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcdefcXcXebaXgdXfXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100000010 110101001 110100111010011 101 011111001011 11101001 100100111011 1101 111100010100011 1111001011 100101101111 101100110111 11011011 011010 01011101 0110010010010 01011010010 110010001 01111010101 101111101 011111010010 11001011000100 01100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 935
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; his, he are repeated.
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