This is an analysis of the poem When We Are Old And These Rejoicing Veins that begins with:
When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbXcXcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 1101000101 1101110101 110101011001 0011010111 1101111011 0111111101 1001010001 1111010111 1101010101 1111111110 01001100101 011000000101 11010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 573
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; our, o, and are repeated.
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