This is an analysis of the poem After Sixty Years that begins with:
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar
Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAAAabccb dadadefag hehehijbi cbcbcdccd kakakgllg dmdmdXaad cacfcejbe bkbkXbaab jbjbjibbi kekeknbbn ebebgbkkb cdcdciaai cececoppo cicicbbbb bbbbbcccc dbdbdcccc qhqhqeiie iaiaiiXbi dmdmdhiih bjbbbjbbj aAAAaXiib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 0100101101 1111111101 1011010101 110101 0100010111 0101110101 0111111100 1101110111 1101010111 1011000101 0101110101 0111011101 111101 0101010111 01010101010 0101110101 1101101100 1011111001 1101110111 1011110101 0101010011 010001 1111011101 1011001111 0101011101 11010101111 01010100101 1111000101 010100100111 11011100101 0010101 1101010101 01110101101 1101011101 01110110101 1111010111 1001111101 101101100101 1101001101 011111 01010101100 110111001001 1111100011 0101010100 1101010101 10101101001 0101010101 0111010101 100101 0101111100 1101010111 0101010011 01001010101 10011111111 0100011001 1111010101 1101110110 011111 1111101011 1101110111 1111010110 1111010101 1011011101 111111111 1111000101 1111111011 010100 1101110111 1101010101 101100011001 1101010101 1111110101 1001011111 010010100101 1100110101 010011 1101011101 1001111101 1101010101 1111011111 1111010101 0100010011 0101110101 1101010111 010101 1110110111 1001000101 0111100100 1111111100 11011100111 0111010111 110010111001 11001100111 110100 0101010111 1101001111 1001110101 1111001111 1011010101 1011011101 1101111101 1111011001 101101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 11010011111 0011010101 10010011111 0101110101 0101111111 110001 01110111001 0100111111 1001001101 1111011110 101010000101 0011011001 1001011111 1100001111 011111 01010010101 0101111011 1101010101 0111110101 1111111100 11110101011 0111110101 1111011111 110111 1001110001 1101110111 11111110001 11110011011 1101101101 11001110101 1011110101 1101010001 110101 1101010101 0101011101 1111110001 1101111011 0111001101 0101110101 01011101011 1101011111 110111 10101110101 1101010101 11010101001 1011111100 10110010111 010011101 1101111101 0111111101 101111 1100110110 01110100100 1101000101 0100010101 1101010111 0101010101 0111010101 0101110101 001101 0111010101 1011011111 0101011110 1001010101 11000101001 1101010110 1101110101 1100010110 010101 1111110101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010111 1111110111 0100101101 1111111101 1011010101 110111 11010101000 1111010001 0111010101 1011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 209
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, our, her, she, of, has, your, english, in, from, name are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her, she, in, there, no, from, and, though are repeated.
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- summary of After Sixty Years;
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