This is an analysis of the poem The Songs Of Seventy Years that begins with:
Master! let stronger lips than these
Turn melody to harmony,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb Xcdc bbXb efef afaf XgXg XXdb hiXi hibi Xibib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 11000100 10110111 010101 11110101 01110101 01011110 010111 11111110 11010111 110000101 010101 11011111 01011101 11011101 010101 11010101 11010111 11000101 110101 110110101 11010101 101010101 1101001 1101010110 010110101 11010100 110111 10111101 10110001 10110101 110001 11011100 11011101 010111101 011101 001111001 11111101 11110011 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, passed are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Songs Of Seventy Years;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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