This is an analysis of the poem Being Young And Green that begins with:
Being Young and Green, I said in love's despite:
Never in the world will I to living wight...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbXXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Metre: 10111110101 10001010101 110111 0100 11010100011 00101100 11010 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
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