This is an analysis of the poem The Burden of Age that begins with:
There is a dancing in the morning beams,
There is a rainbow sown amid the dew,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaBaA aacacBaA aacacBaA adXdXbaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001000101 1001110101 1001011101 01010000101 1111010101 1100111101 1101000101 1100111001 1001000111 1001111001 0101000111 0101000101 1101011101 1100111101 1101000111 1100111001 1001011111 01000110001 0100010101 110101101 1111101101 1100111101 1101011111 1100111001 1101011101 1011110111 1111110100 1111010101 11111101111 0101110101 1101101101 1100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, a, and are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dreams at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Burden of Age;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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