This is an analysis of the poem The Dreams Of Youth that begins with:

The dreams of youth are fairest,
The dreams of youth are rarest;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbbbc defghhig Xhbcjjic jjhcXfbc aaXkdefk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110 0101110 0101110 1011101 1001010 1101010 1101110 0011111 1101110 00111011 10111010 1010101 1101110 00101010 01000101 1100101 10111010 11111010 00100010 1010100 00101110 00110110 11101010 1010011 10101110 10101110 10111010 0011111 11111100 11101010 10111010 0011111 10100010 10101010 10101010 1000101 11101010 11111011 1101010 00111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dreams, of, youth are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase in connects the lines.

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