This is an analysis of the poem At A Certain Age that begins with:
We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.
White clouds refused to accept them, and the wind...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacXXdXXcXdXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111110110 11010010101 11101001101 10101010000100 11010010110 0111101011001 010100101 011010111 1010011010110 1100101011010 01001010011010 010001011100 100110100111 1110101110110 1100111101 1100111 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 752
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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