This is an analysis of the poem Affirmation that begins with:
To grow old is to lose everything.
Aging, everybody knows it. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbXcXXdedXXXbXXceXbcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001101 10101010 101111 110011111 101101 1111010110 11001101010 10101110 0001101 101011 110101 0011101 11011101 101011100 11011111 010101010 1101010 010100110 10101111 1101010011001 010100110001 01101100 11101011011 10110010 101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 844
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Affirmation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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