This is an analysis of the poem Lucius Atherton that begins with:
When my moustache curled,
And my hair was black,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabXcXcXcdeXdcXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 11111 111110 10101 111100101111001 1101101001 101101001 1111101 11111010010 0111111101010 110100111001 01011101 11110111110101 100011001010 100101011 100101111 011100 11111011111 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 698
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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