This is an analysis of the poem Answering Age that begins with:
AGE is calling to me, with his finger long and grim,
It is urging me to wander down the dreary lanes with him, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX ccaXdd eeffbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010010010111 001010101010101 011110101111101 1010100011111101 101011101111101 111010101111101 1101101110101 001110101011101 101011101010111 101111101111101 101011101010111 101100111011111 101111101110010 01011101111101 111110101110110 111101101010101 101110101010111 101111111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, with, me, and, us, you, of, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word age at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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