This is an analysis of the poem The Voice Of Age that begins with:

She'd look upon us, if she could,
As hard as Rhadamanthus would; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbXcc ddbdeeaa XXXdbbaaXddbbdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011 11110001 11111101 01010101 01000111 0110001000 11110101 01001100 11010011 10011111 01111101 11011100 11110101 10111101 11110101 0110011 11011100 11110101 11110100 01110101 11110111 11010101 11101001 11101001 11110111 11011101 11111101 11110001 11011101 11010111 01010011 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; not, our, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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