This is an analysis of the poem In Youth I Have Known One that begins with:
How often we forget all time, when lone
Admiring Nature's universal throne; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb c dededeff X eXegegbb X chXhchaa XXaaaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011111 0101010101 0101010001 0100010100 1 0111110101 01001011100 0111010001 11010010111 0011111111 010011101011 11110110010 001101110010 1 0101011101 001010111110 1101011111 0101001101 1101100001 0100010111 100100111011 110011100101 1 110111110101 00110101001 0111010100 1101101101 0101110111 11001111101 00111001010 101110101010 1 01010110110 0101110101 11011101110 111110111 11100101110 1101010011 010010011101 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, in, o'er, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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