This is an analysis of the poem When The Young Are Grown that begins with:

Once the house was lovely, but it's lonely here to-day,
For time has come an' stained its walls an' called the young away;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccddbbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011101010101 11111101110101 11111101111101 001111101010101 11010111110001 11110101111101 1001111010100111 111011101110101 111110101110111 11011101110111 110111011101001 111011111011111 11111101010101 101010111111111 111010101011111 111001101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1024
  • Average number of words per stanza: 200
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; an', for, to, we, 'em are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.

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